On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 14:59 +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > the problem is: i install one app, install another app, > > both are outputting sound, and it won't work. > > You mean: in the best case, only one of them is putting out > sound :) . > dmix > > you can port open source apps to audio, and blame > > commercial companies to write apps for alsa > > (Id did, the new doom III release has alsa support) > > To be honest, they shouldn't support ALSA, they should better > support the non existing common unix audio layer. > Why can't ALSA be the common layer? > > but u still need to struggle around with alsa > > config, etc. > > Yep. And normal users are not able to do so. They should not have to. If you have to hack .asoundrc and google for hours to get sound working then IT'S A BUG IN YOUR DISTRO. Please file a bug report. Lee
