Hallo, Dave Phillips hat gesagt: // Dave Phillips wrote: > Greetings: > > I'd like to employ dmix on my laptop but I need to know a few things > before doing so. The first thing concerns my assumptions: Am I correct > in understanding that dmix will perform as a "virtual hardware mixer" a > la the SBLive on my desktop machine ? My laptop is an HP Omnibook 4150, > it's very nice but its sound chip is a CS4232 and is not capable of > hardware mixing like the SBLive. It would be nice if dmix would let me > play with more than one audio app at a time. > If my first assumption is correct, how do I invoke and use dmix ? Yes, it should. You can find a more detailed instruction on http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/asoundrc.php3#softmix but normally you don't need to follow it any more than to use "plug:dmix" as sound device istead of the usual "default". dmix at least in alsa 0.9.2 didn't work well if at all with higher end cards: it doesn't mix at 24bit. But the laptop card should be fine. > Should it be in a startup file somewhere or should it be launched from > the command-line ? Given that my laptop's CPU is only a PII 366 what > kind of performance can I expect? I'd be happy to hear about that ;) > Finally, how do I control the volume for each app playing, i.e., is > there a mixer that recognizes dmix ? That, too. > I'm curious as to how people are using dmix and what are their > opinions about it, so fire away... And of course, this as well. ;) ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
