[ut2004] ALSA or OSS
Rick B
zajelo3 at cfl.rr.com
Mon Jan 24 18:34:45 EST 2005
Tony Jones wrote:
> Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote:
>
>> I guess that will be greatly dependant on your sound hardware =-)
>>
>> 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).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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>>> 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
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