On 7 Feb 2002, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Danny Tholen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It's mostly driver related. Are you sure that two programs can > concurrently open (thus, normally, lock) /dev/dsp, and both play > together at the same time? > > If it is supported, I'd be sad that the driver for my GUS doesn't > do that :-). > Well, I do not know if they lock /dev/dsp, but I can without any problems fire up 2 xmms (with OSS driver) without soundwrapper and play 2 mp3s together (not very usefull though). But I can also play mp3s while playing Return to castle wolfenstein. Actually I never had problems playing multiple music/sounds together. Always without arts or esd. I understood that the emu10k1 has a hardware mixer that can handle 32 streams. It works in both alsa and kernel driver.
Maybe the soundwrapper/arts stuff can be disabled if Harddrake detects a SBLIVE? Danny > >
