FC3 wishlist - sound server

[Peter Backlund]

On tis, 2004-07-06 at 20:49 +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 19:21 +0200, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 19:02 +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote:
> > 
> > > What about including a good sound server and use it by default? I don't
> > > know what's best, but Jack seems ok.
> > 
> > I still don't see the point of using a sound server when ALSA allows for
> > software/hardware sound mixing from different sources.
> just tested, not for me
> XMMS set to alsa output
> console: aplay something.wav - remains blocked until xmms is stopped

Alsa does hardware mixing with cards that in fact support hardware
mixing, and for those that don't support it you'll need to set up the
DMIX plugin. See attached .asoundrc for an example of this.

More info here 
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=DmixPlugin
   
and here 
http://fedoranews.org/contributors/andre_costa/alsa/

The issue of sound has been brought up before, and I can only reiterate
my request for a default setup that /just works/.    

/Peter

-- 
Peter Backlund <peter.backlund at home.se>
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#
# DMIX input device
#
pcm.!output {
    type dmix
    ipc_key 1234
    slave {
        pcm "hw:0,0"
        period_time 0
        period_size 1024
        rate 44100
    }
}

#
# DSNOOP output device
#
#pcm.!input {
#    type dsnoop
#    ipc_key 1234
#    slave {
#        pcm "hw:0,0"
#        period_time 0
#        period_size 1024
#        rate 44100
#    }
#}

#
# ASYM duplex device
#
pcm.!duplex {
    type asym
    playback.pcm "output"
    capture.pcm "input"
}

#
# Make the duplex device default
#
pcm.!default {
    type plug
    slave.pcm "duplex"
}

#
# OSS Compability
#
pcm.!dsp0 {
    type plug
    slave.pcm "duplex"
}

ctl.!mixer0 {
    type hw
    card 0
}