From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EYSaF-0003WV-VG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 18:16:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA5IEZNO030883; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 18:14:35 GMT Received: from relay.phys.ualberta.ca (relay.phys.ualberta.ca [129.128.7.238]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA5IEYxd011780 for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 18:14:35 GMT Received: from webmail.phys.ualberta.ca ([129.128.7.21]:21228 "EHLO webmail.phys.ualberta.ca" TLS-CIPHER: ) by relay.phys.ualberta.ca with ESMTP id ; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 11:14:23 -0700 Received: (from web-proxy@localhost) by webmail.phys.ualberta.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) id jA5IEQ007199; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 11:14:26 -0700 Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 11:14:26 -0700 Message-Id: <200511051814.jA5IEQ007199@webmail.phys.ualberta.ca> X-Authentication-Warning: webmail.phys.ualberta.ca: web-proxy set sender to pogosyan@Phys.UAlberta.CA using -f From: "Dmitri Pogosyan" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] alsa mixer question X-Mailer: Open WebMail 1.50 beta 20011007 X-OriginatingIP: 208.38.43.222 (pogosyan) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: f7ae02fa-18ed-4d94-afe9-47323c3fc462 X-Archives-Hash: ea99e81fe19dc67901b427907cd3c77e As people said your choices are 1) Use sound card with hardware mixing 2) Run sound mixing daemon like esound or arts 3) Set up dmix in alsa. I also heard that alsa 1.10 is supposed to come with replacement for dmix ? 3) is preferable to 2), especially arts seems having a lot of bad rap. I have recompiled everything without arts (I don't have gnome or esound installed) and set up dmix devices. Works fine. I don't know much about 'jack' > I am running a 2.6.14 kernel: > > uname -a > Linux lurch 2.6.14-gentoo #1 PREEMPT Mon Oct 31 01:06:31 PST 2005 x86_64 > AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux > > using the 2005.0 profile and ~amd64 ARCH on a Shuttle SN85G4. > > In general a single sound application, xmms, mplayer, torcs, works. The > problem is that the browser, galeon and others, often open /dev/sound/dsp. > Then when I try to run a second application that also uses sound, the > second application fails when it tries to open /dev/sound/dsp. > > Does anyone have recommendations that I could follow to more easily get > multiple applications to work together? > > I just want to be able to start a browser, xmms, and then run a few laps > with Torcs. > > Thanks, > > --- > Steve Herber herber@thing.com work: 206-221-7262 > Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399 > -- > gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list -- Dmitri Pogosyan Department of Physics Associate Professor University of Alberta tel 1-780-492-2150 412 Avadh Bhatia Physics Labs fax 1-780-492-0714 Edmonton, AB, T6G 2J1, CANADA -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list