On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 21:09 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I don't know about other distros, but here's how that usually goes for Fedora users.. > > It Works in Ubuntu(TM)[0]. More seriously: recent alsa-libs should > provide a pile of stuff in /usr/share/alsa/cards which switches dmix on > by default in most cards[1]. Obviously, for this to work usefully, your > application needs to be using libalsa (either natively or using the aoss > wrapper). > > [0] The only patch is to enable symbol versioning > [1] Not ones with hardware mixing [1] is already done for most of the hardware that needs it. No user configuration at all should be required. Please, let us know if you find a device it does not work that way for. Lee