I keep hearing comments about using dmix so a device can be shaared between software speech and other sound sources. I have one laptop here that cannot share its device with a standard alsa configuration. How does one implement dmix? I see a definition for dmix in the /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf. At present, I do not have a .asoundrc nor /etc/asound.conf defined as I haven't needed them yet. I looked around the alsa-project website but haven't found much. Since some people have done that around here, I thought I'd ask here for some quick ideas. I don't need to add anything to a kernel configuration, do I? The laptop I have in question has an older Yamaha type card that got linked up as an ISA device if I remember off top of my head. I use Slackware 11.0, with Linux 2.6.20 Kernel. When I attempt to play a wav file with something like aplay -D dmix something.wav, I get an error that no chanels found so it at least, finds a device but not chanels. I figure it is a confiuration issue. Any ideas? -- HolmesGrown Solutions The best solutions for the best price! http://holmesgrown.ld.net/
