Hallo, the good news: I managed to get dmix running with aoss! The bad news: It doesn't work just right. Here's my relevant ~/.asoundrc:
pcm.dsp0 { type plug slave.pcm "dmix" } ctl.mixer0 { type hw card 0 } I also definded default to be dmix, too: pcm.!default{ type plug slave.pcm "dmix" } This way, I could run several alsaplayers and I could even start xmms with the aoss hack like "aoss xmms". Xmms could play music, but it was much too slow. The error is: $ aoss xmms ** WARNING **: SNDCTL_DSP_SPEED ioctl failed: No such file or directory It was not possible to run alsaplayer with OSS output and aoss. $ aoss alsaplayer -o oss tender-lukas_nystrand-instruemental.mp3 error setting sample_rate failed to configure output device...trying OSS error setting sample_rate failed to configure output device...trying OSS This looks like the same error. So question 1 is: Is there a way to fix this samplerate problem? I could run sox with aoss, but then I could *only* run one instance of sox alone without other apps acessing the device, which is not exactly what dmix was made for. Another problem is, that dmix only allows hw-slaves. On the Midiman Audiophile I thus cannot play some soundfiles, for example no mono files, unless the app converts them to stereo files. This gives Q2: Is it planned or possible to specify plug-slaves for dmix? ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email sponsored by: Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo The Event For Linux Datacenter Solutions & Strategies in The Enterprise Linux in the Boardroom; in the Front Office; & in the Server Room http://www.enterpriselinuxforum.com _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user