On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 15:05 -0400, Brian Keener wrote: > I've used a SoundBlaster Live for a long time under linux. Apparantly > I've been spoiled by the SB Live's hardware mixing ability; I can't > get the on-board Nforce3 (snd_intel8x0) to mix multiple sound streams. > > What can I realistically expect from Alsa? Can I expect to have gaim, > XMMS, and VMWare all play sounds simultaneous to the onboard sound?
Should Just Work with a recent ALSA version, no .asoundrc and apps that support ALSA natively and use the "default" device (not "hw:x"). If you have apps that only speak OSS, you'll have problems. You may be able to run them under the aoss wrapper. Lee _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
