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* [gentoo-user] Problems when more than one application uses sound
@ 2006-05-28 15:57 Felipe Ribeiro
  2006-05-28 18:54 ` Jure Varlec
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Felipe Ribeiro @ 2006-05-28 15:57 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-amd64, gentoo-user, gentoo-laptop

Hi,

I'm using alsa, and i can't use the sound simultaneously by more than
one application, for example, when i'm seeing flash animations on
firefox, xmms can't output sound. How can i solve this?

Cheers,
Felipe

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* Re: [gentoo-user] Problems when more than one application uses sound
  2006-05-28 15:57 [gentoo-user] Problems when more than one application uses sound Felipe Ribeiro
@ 2006-05-28 18:54 ` Jure Varlec
  2006-05-28 19:45   ` Richard Fish
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jure Varlec @ 2006-05-28 18:54 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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On Sunday 28 May 2006 17:57, Felipe Ribeiro wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using alsa, and i can't use the sound simultaneously by more than
> one application, for example, when i'm seeing flash animations on
> firefox, xmms can't output sound. How can i solve this?
>
> Cheers,
> Felipe

ALSA supports software mixing, but you have to create a proper asoundrc config 
file to activate the dmix plugin. See 
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ALSA_Complete_(includes_dmix)

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* Re: [gentoo-user] Problems when more than one application uses sound
  2006-05-28 18:54 ` Jure Varlec
@ 2006-05-28 19:45   ` Richard Fish
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Richard Fish @ 2006-05-28 19:45 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On 5/28/06, Jure Varlec <exzombie@exzombie.homeip.net> wrote:
> ALSA supports software mixing, but you have to create a proper asoundrc config
> file to activate the dmix plugin. See
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ALSA_Complete_(includes_dmix)

Actually current versions (since 1.0.10, I think) of alsa activate the
dmix plugin by default.  No .asoundrc necessary.

In fact, Felipe, if you have a ~/.asoundrc file, you may find that
alsa works better without it.

-Richard

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