On 8/30/05, Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:28:37 +0200
> Christoph Eckert wrote:
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> 
> > Recent ALSA versions do softwaremixing using the DMIX plugin per
> > default. Older versions can do it by creating an soundrc file.
> >
> > Unfortunately this does not help with legacy applications which still
> > use OSS or the ALSA OSS emulation - like Skype or Realplayer do :( .
> 
> does that mean that OSS emulation does not use dmix?
> 
> If you're using alsa and dmix, you can try to install 'alsa-oss' ... It'll 
install an app called 'aoss' which should be able to redirect any standard 
OSS requests to alsa/dmix.

HTH,

-Hani