On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 10:31, Steffen Barszus wrote: > On Thursday 30 January 2003 01:10, Pixel wrote: > > Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > 6. no easy way to disable arts, and it interferes with everything > > > > > > arts is what allows different progs to share a single /dev/dsp. > > > > seems like alsa can do this too on some hardware, with no need for > > arts... > > Yes it can. The question is: Is OSS not capable to do this ? If both > (OSS&Alsa) are able to do so arts is obsolete isn't it ? Can someone with > knowledge comment on this ?
a) I don't believe OSS can, and b) no it isn't. As someone else said, it can only be done by ALSA if it's supported in hardware. Many cards do this, but some (including quite a lot of onboard sound chips) can't. arts, esd etc. can do it with any sound hardware, because they combine the streams themselves and just send one to the hardware (at least, I believe that's how they work.) -- adamw
