>>>>> "Sven" == Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sven> "Are you using ALSA with dmix?
Sven> http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=DmixPlugin
Sven> gstreamer (and hence rhythmbox) will use dmix if it is
Sven> setup and should allow multiple sources using the
Sven> sound card.
Combined with this text on the above page:
NOTE: For ALSA 1.0.9rc2 and higher you don't need to setup
dmix. Dmix is enabled as default for soundcards which don't support
hw mixing.
and a whole bunch of time to check things out, it appears the answer
is "yes". It seems I don't have a choice.
Before this I didn't even know what dmix was. I still don't care
though - I just want my system to behave sensibly!
[So, now my rant is no longer directed at you as Debian maintainer of
rhythmbox... :-]
Sven> The problem is likely your other apps that are the
Sven> problem not rhythmbox/gstreamer, some proprietary apps
Sven> like Skype use the old OSS interface which
Sven> "hogs/steals" the sound card. Not much that alsa can
Sven> do about that, see: [...]
I don't use Skype and I don't even have OSS compatibility in my kernel!
If I could understand what value I'm getting from dmix I might be
happy using it. However, at the moment all I want to be able to do it
play a single audio stream.
This suggests that my sound card (ICH6) can only do 48KHz natively:
$ grep Hz /proc/asound/card0/codec97#0/ac97#0-0
PCM front DAC : 48000Hz
PCM ADC : 48000Hz
Does dmix resample for me so I can play my 44.1KHz OGG files? This is
pretty unclear to me...
Thanks...
peace & happiness,
martin
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