On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 01:41:21 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > Now the obvious question is - How do I share the soundcard in a way
> > that I don' t have to kill some processes in order to make others
> > work?
> you need alsa.
> Kill artsd, alsa-capable apps should be able to use the dmix plugin
> like this: alsaplayer -d plug:dmix
> Other apps have other ways to tell them, which alsa-device/plugin
> should be used.
Or you can make the default alsa device use dmix with ~/.asoundrc
(attached).
> I started 5 instances of alsaplayer that way, with opengl-plugins and
> without any skips....
Lucky you. dmix is unusable for me. Q3A stays silent and even if I only
run rhythmbox through dmix it will skip. I have a simple VIA VT82C686
AC97 Audio Controller.
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmix"
}
pcm.dsp0 pcm.default
ctl.mixer0 {
type hw
card 0
}
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