[ut2004] ALSA or OSS

Joel Wiramu Pauling aenertia at aenertia.net
Mon Jan 24 17:54:49 EST 2005


I guess that will be greatly dependant on your sound hardware =-)

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 16:25 -0600, Tony Jones wrote:
> Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote:
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> >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). 
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> >On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 12:55 -0400, Spike wrote:
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> >>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:
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> >>>Does UT2k4 use alsa or oss, i htought it was alsa - but normally when
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> >>>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
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> >>i
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> >>>can run other sound apps in the backgraound)?
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> >>>Keir Lawson
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> What's the overhead in using dmix?
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