Pierre Lorenzon wrote: > There are two sound card on the system. A chips on the mother > board which is driven as far as I know by an hda intel driver > and a PCI xonar STX card. > > On the first one mixing is possible : I mean that if a sound > process as aplay for instance is running and you start another > one like mplayer for instance sound is mixed and you might > listen to the two sources taht are played. > > With the xonar STX card it does not seem to be possible. Neither hardware supports mixing. Dmix (or PulseAudio) is enabled by default, but when you're using a device name like "hw" or "plughw" to access the other card, this is bypassed. In theory, "default:X" or "dmix:X" should work for any card. Did you redefine the "default" ALSA device? If not, do "aplay -D default:STX something.wav" and "mplayer -ao alsa:device=default=STX something.mp3" work? Regards, Clemens ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user