Re: sound subsystem

[Mariano Draghi <mdraghi prosud com>]

Behdad Esfahbod escribió:
> A couple of months back I configured an ALSA mixer, but after a
> few seconds of playback, it used to get stuck for no reason.  Of
> course it may have been fixed by now.

I'm using software mixing w/ALSA here. Haven't tested it that much, but 
so far so good.
And it takes only a ~/.asoundrc file.


>  And oh, it needs
> applications being configured to use that software mixer device
> instead of default ALSA device for playback (xmms, gaim, etc).

Well, someone posted a few days ago a tip on the fedora-list on how to 
make the software input & output devices the default.
That's the one I'm using, and as long the applications are configured to 
use ALSA, they end using the sw mixing. I tested it w/ XMMS, Xine and 
the system sounds in Gnome, it works and I didn't have to tweak anything 
but just the ~/.asoundrc.

I don't have this thread off hand, but I guess if you search the 
fedora-list it will pop up.

I think it's a nice default to include... but it needs more testing, 
though. f.i., I don't know if there's any performance hit by doing this 
(I suppose there is)

Regards,

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Mariano