On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 22:25:24 -0500, Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If your card doesn't support hardware mixing then just use dmix. What's > the problem? > One problem is that dmix doesn't cure all problems. It doesn't work with OSS apps, or ALSA apps that try to use different buffer/hw settings etc. Plus you still have to kill all dmix using programs if you want to do 'serious' audio stuff (for example recording) Plus it is very inconvenient, especially for newbies or non-technical users, that you have to configure all this stuff while it works out of the box on windows and mac os... cheers, Christian
