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 1EYmX3-0005Mm-E0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2005 15:34:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA6FWPci026504; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 15:32:25 GMT Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA6FWOcf028845 for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 15:32:24 GMT Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EYmTU-0007Fp-QJ for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2005 16:30:28 +0100 Received: from ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.97.182]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 06 Nov 2005 16:30:28 +0100 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 06 Nov 2005 16:30:28 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: alsa mixer question Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 08:30:13 -0700 Organization: Sometimes Message-ID: References: <200511051814.jA5IEQ007199@webmail.phys.ualberta.ca> <200511060449.41167.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: c28b3159-21b0-4c89-81ea-0d0f89704eef X-Archives-Hash: 92a8806a126c8a9d417ed11abbe1b653 Hemmann, Volker Armin posted <200511060449.41167.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>, excerpted below, on Sun, 06 Nov 2005 04:49:41 +0100: > On Saturday 05 November 2005 19:14, 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 ? >> > > no, but since a recent version came out, you do not need to setup up dmix. It > should just work out of the box. Well... except with stuff that insists on using exclusive mode access. arts is one such "stuff", one of the big reasons folks have such difficulty with it. Use it, and everything else has to play thru arts, or not play at all, when arts is active, even with hardware mixing or dmix. At least, that's been my experience, and the arts kcontrol applet (kcmshell arts, or just find it in kcontrol) specifically mentions it DOES use exclusive mode, and that other things won't be able to use sound when it's active. Other sound daemons may or may not be equally "selfish". -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list