> Hasn't anyone been listening? ?dmix can do this now. ?It's
> a bug in your distro if this blocking behavior is the
> default. ?There's no excuse for it.
Hm. I'm not yet familiar with dmix. Seems I should dive into
it.
AFAIK it needs to create an asoundrc.
Most distros use alsaconf as a backend for configuring
soundcards, and - I'm really not experienced in reading shel
scripts - it seems that alsaconf doesn't create an asoundrc
file for the user.
And manually create it? Well, it's somewhat a syntax similar
to lisp, I was told. I will need hours until I would have
understood and created an asoundrc which will do the job for
me.
So, if dmix is a solution, it needs tweaking the alsaconf
script to automatically create an asoundrc.
> As for closed apps using the OSS API, if they won't port
> their software to ALSA, what makes you think they'd port it
> to this new API?
Well, if they knew there's something which is the right thing
and if I support this one I will always be able to play sound
regardless how the soundconfiguration looks like on a
prticular machine, it will last time, but it will be
supported.
Best regards
ce
