[ut2004] ALSA or OSS

Joel Wiramu Pauling aenertia at aenertia.net
Mon Jan 24 16:58:55 EST 2005


Or if you want read the alsa wiki for tips on setting up dmix plugin
which will enable psudo multiple streams (works well for most people). 



On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 12:55 -0400, Spike wrote:
> Yeah, get a sound card that can play back multiple streams in hardware.
> A card based on an emu10k1 chip, such as a soundblaster live works well.
> In my opinion cards that only play a single stream are junk under linux.
> 
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:51:40 +0000
> Keir Lawson <keir at thelawsons.plus.com> wrote:
> 
> > Does UT2k4 use alsa or oss, i htought it was alsa - but normally when
> i
> > play two alsa apps i get sound from both, but i dont get this with ut,
> > also, when another alsa app is running it complaings of not being able
> > to access /dev/dsp. Is there anyway to get it working on alsa (so that
> i
> > can run other sound apps in the backgraound)?
> > 
> > Keir Lawson
> > -- 
> 
> 




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