> OSS seems to be dead,
Yes.
> ALSA is said by some to be dying,
Certainly not :) .
> ARTS looks like a do-(almost)-everything, but a few lacks,
Arts is dying. Forget about it.
> DMIX looks like 'almost there, with limits',
This is softwaremixing for ALSA, but if you do want pro audio
work
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(and much belated, at that! -- catching up.)
From: Christoph Eckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 00:51:10 +0200
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Don't hesitate to ask me .
Christoph,
A small request, if you would be so kind.
(Or anyone else who feels tha
Hi,
> Here at home I have a Creative Audigy which one I guess
> have hardwaremixing capability
I don't know if it is able to do hardware mixing.
> but at my job I have a
> nForce2 based onboard soundcard which one I'm not sure if
> have hardwaremixing.
I guess it is a device compliant to the
Christoph Eckert wrote:
>>There is an alsa plugin to allow any native alsa
>>application to connect through the jack server.
>> Unfortunately I've never been able to get acceptable sound
>>quality using it this way
>>
>>
>
>I guess you mean bio2jack.sf.net?
>
>
>
No, I mean 'media-plugi
> There is an alsa plugin to allow any native alsa
> application to connect through the jack server.
> Unfortunately I've never been able to get acceptable sound
> quality using it this way
I guess you mean bio2jack.sf.net?
It's available as a xmms plugin and works fine.
Best regards
Christoph Eckert schreef:
>
> Even if you're not running KDE you can install arts standalone
> and start it via any login script. Dunno where esound can get
> started.
rc-update in other words, rc-update add esound default .
Holly
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Christoph Eckert wrote:
>Hi,
>
>
>>Afaik "jack"
>>should enable this, but I have never tried it
>>
>>
>
>JACK is a specialised soundserver for realtime audio stuff
>used by musicians (that's why I'm running JACK all the
>time ;) .
>
>I doubt that Skype will ever be able to talk to JAC
On 6/7/05, Christoph Eckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> > This is all correct, but it should be noted that dmix does
> > NOT provide full-duplex capabilities:
>
> If your card is able to work in full duplex or not does not
> depend on ALSA but the hardware. Cheap AC '97 chips are able
Hi,
> This is all correct, but it should be noted that dmix does
> NOT provide full-duplex capabilities:
If your card is able to work in full duplex or not does not
depend on ALSA but the hardware. Cheap AC '97 chips are able
to work in full duplex mode.
> this means that you
> will probably
Christoph Eckert wrote:
The currently best solution is to configure the DMIX plugin
for ALSA (search alsa.opensrc.org for "sharing") and run both
arts and esound on top of it. This way, arts and esound aware
applications can play sound *as well as* applications which
can output sound directly
> Coming to my job I did get a try to use start esd at shell
> prompt and suddenly I could run a lot of xmms instances and
> listen to all they at the same time.
PLease note that xmms (unlike many others) has various output
plugins for several sound systems.
The advantage of audio servers are t
hi,
I have 2 box with gentoo, one at my home and other at work.
well, the one of home have alsa drivers for sound and I used gnome as
desktop for a while.
I always was able to listen sound from a lot of softwares at same time
and didn't needed to do any manual configuration to this.
At my work mac
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