Tapio Kelloniemi wrote: > I quickly checked the mail archives, but didn't find anything relevant > about this topic, though I think it has been asked before. > I installed Alsa-0.9.0-RC2 on system (RedHat 7.2) with Creative vibra 16 > and used Alsa's SB16 driver. THe problem is that when one program uses the > soundcard (dsp), other's can't do it. They just wait until the first > programstops playing and start then. Is there a way to let all programs > use the card at the same time?
Under Unix, this is normally achieved by an additional demon. Sucg a demon often belongs to a particualt desktop environment. For example esound comes from Elightenment WM (perhaps this is now also the standard sound demom under Gnome) and KDE ships with aRts which also encompasses a full featured software synthesizer. Problem with these things are latency and sound quality. The one an only approach (as far as I am aware of) to do sound multiplexing in top quality especially tailored for Alsa is the JACK project. It is in early stage but there are reports from people who are already using it successfully. Frank -- Dr Frank Boehme | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] National University of Ireland, Cork | phone: +353-21-4903163 Dept of Computer Science | fax: +353-21-4903113 Cork, Ireland | ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Gadgets, caffeine, t-shirts, fun stuff. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
