Hi Clemens, From: Clemens Ladisch <cladisch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: intel hda vs asus xonar STX Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 08:35:24 +0200 > 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. OK that's the first significant information ! > > Dmix (or PulseAudio) is enabled by default, but when you're I read taht here and there but did not know really how to activate it ! > using a device name like "hw" or "plughw" to access the other > card, this is bypassed. In theory, "default:X" or "dmix:X" OK I ignored this bypass. > should work for any card. > > Did you redefine the "default" ALSA device? If not, do No I did not redefine anything ! > "aplay -D default:STX something.wav" and > "mplayer -ao alsa:device=default=STX something.mp3" work? Clear it works. Only have now to tell to ecasound to do the same because output description is not exactly the same as in aplay or player but now I precisely know waht have to be done. Thanks and regards Pierre > > > Regards, > Clemens > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
