On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 10:27:27AM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Doesn't ALSA only allow one opener for the sound device file, and expect > the sound to be mixed in software? You never want to mix kernel side for a variety of reasons two being - How you mix is source dependant and involves trade offs - You can't use FPU or MMX in kernel > It was OSS that did sound mixing within the kernel drivers, but it was > problematic. Hannu's proprietary OSS did but not the GPL one.
