Hello, What you want is aplay -D plug:dmix file.wav or .au or whatever. Hope this helps a little, Zack. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 12:26 PM Subject: ALSA dmix Questions >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/ > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
