At Thu, 15 Nov 2001 08:03:07 -0600,
Jamin W. Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Is it possible with ALSA drivers (current or beta) to have multiple PCM 
> sound sources play back at the same time?
 
Depends on the card.  emu10k1, trident, ymfpci, es1968 and maestro3
supports multiple playback (the last two are not recommended,
though).

> There have been a few references on other lists indicating that
> 
>  > modern sound hardware can multiplex multiple users of /dev/dsp
>  > together itself, without anyone else in the middle.
> 
> In particular, I'm using the snd-card-intel8x0 module if that makes any 
> difference.

No, i8x0 supports only one stream.  So, the multiple playback is
supported only on user-space solution, such as esound or artsd.


ciao,

Takashi


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