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 1EYaXg-0000SN-4k for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2005 02:46:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA62hX4w018943; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 02:43:33 GMT Received: from squall.platinum-hosting.com (delphi.platinum-hosting.com [66.98.198.82]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA62hWRF008807 for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 02:43:32 GMT Received: from ip68-231-211-153.oc.oc.cox.net ([68.231.211.153] ident=appleboy) by squall.platinum-hosting.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1EYaVD-0000hq-8R for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 20:43:28 -0600 Message-ID: <436D6DCE.8060701@randomvoids.com> Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 18:43:26 -0800 From: Kyle Lutze User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051022) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] alsa mixer question References: <200511051814.jA5IEQ007199@webmail.phys.ualberta.ca> In-Reply-To: <200511051814.jA5IEQ007199@webmail.phys.ualberta.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - squall.platinum-hosting.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - randomvoids.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Archives-Salt: daf7b85e-036c-4c14-af24-10e0c982cf7e X-Archives-Hash: 988ed326fbb8857c05613d8ee54fb874 Dmitri Pogosyan wrote: > 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' > > jack is the jack audio connection kit. It is mostly used by audio professionals or people that have m-audio audio cards. It is probably unwanted for this situation as most programs don't support it, and it's Jack is the jack audio connection kit. It is mostly used by audio professionals or people that have m-audio audio cards. It is probably too powerful for your type of setup, so don't worry about. It's very powerful for what it does, and with that a bit complicated to setup, especially to get non-jack programs working with it. Kyle -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list