> looks like dmix solves the problem
AFAIK this depends. It solves the problem for apps which want
to access the ALSA device (HW:0 etc.), but as soon as an app
tries to get OSS access via /dev/dsp DMIX cannot do
softwaremixing. Maybe I'm wrong, but AFAIK such apps need to
be started with the aoss wrapper. And no user starts mozilla
as "aoss mozilla", does he?
> but it seems like it's
> not that easy to set it up (I haven't tried since I have
> soundcard with hw support for multiple channels).
AFAIK the latest ALSA and kernel brings DMIX per default
without the need to create an asoundrc.
Best regards
ce
