On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 16:57 +0000, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 16:09 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > > > for software mixing of multiple output streams (e.g. the case of playing > > > music while still hearing IM event sounds) which is what I'm thinking of > > > (although please correct me if I am wrong). > > > > This works. Just tell the gstreamer system to use alsa as audio sink > > (Preferences->More Preferences->Multimedia Systems Selector) > > Sounds good! I tried upgrading my alsa libraries on an FC3 box with > alsa-lib-1.0.7-3.devel.i386.rpm but it just caused sound to break on the > (virtual) console I was using (first it moaned about a missing key and > then after I thew away the .asoundrc file alsa support in ogg123 stopped > working and started spewing messages). I've downgraded back to the FC3 > packages and sound works again. > > It does appear that DMix software mixing will be on by default in FC4 > for everybody (a shame for soundcard owners who have hardware mixing but > to be fair they are in the minority). We're trading one very serious, major bug (sound mixing not working for anyone) for a few more minor bugs (sound mixing not efficient as possible, doesn't work for 2nd sound card, etc.). I'm not saying these new bugs are not important - conceptually they are fixable in alsa-lib.
