On 8/16/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:55:58 -0700 > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Nick, > > Interesting. I have something like 8 Gentoo machines I run Alsa on. > > All of them use OSS emulation at least partially. I do not remember > > any messages or guidance to do what you're say, but indeed, it makes > > sense, sort of... Unfortunately, it seems that emerge didn't tell me > > to do this or, if it did, then the messages were lost in an endless > > stream of compile text while doing an emerge world. > > > > I suppose I really don't like this way of doing it since it now > > makes Alsa set up for Gentoo different from what is specified on the > > Alsa pages. It also seems that the /etc/conf.d/alsasound page may not > > give me as much control in my systems where I'm using multiple sound > > cards. I'll have to review that more carefully. > > > > Humm... Are there any new online instructions that specify all these > > changes? > > I didn't find any, i figured it out for myself. > > I posted to this list, then found the solution then posted a SOLVED > message almost staright away, a week or 2 back. >
Nick, Sorry for not seeing the post or the work you were doing in this area. I haven't been reading this list in depth lately. As I say, I think the capabilities provided here by the Gentoo devs look good, but I get the feeling there maybe wasn't so much thought given to multiple sound card systems. For instance, if I have an expensive sound card in a system which also has an on-board sound chip, then maybe I want Alsa support for both devices, but OSS support only for the second card. Game audio, etc., goes there while recording studio audio goes through the high-end card using Jack. This allows me to run Jack through the first card while I run OSS through the second. The first card goes to external D/A & A/D converters. The OSS audio goes out of the machine as analog and into an external A/D to get resynced with Jack. How do I do this? (I.e. - I can do it easily with the sort of configuration I presented earlier.) Thanks, Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
