[ut2004] ALSA or OSS

[Rick B]

Tony Jones wrote:

> Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote:
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>> I guess that will be greatly dependant on your sound hardware =-)
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>> On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 16:25 -0600, Tony Jones wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>>>> 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 
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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 
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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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> nforce2 onboard sound
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I tried dmix with the Nforce2 and it uses so much CPU that it's really 
not worth it.

                   Rick B