FC3 wishlist - sound server
Alan Cox
alan at redhat.com
Tue Jul 6 23:03:05 UTC 2004
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 10:27:27AM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> Doesn't ALSA only allow one opener for the sound device file, and expect
> the sound to be mixed in software?
You never want to mix kernel side for a variety of reasons two being
- How you mix is source dependant and involves trade offs
- You can't use FPU or MMX in kernel
> It was OSS that did sound mixing within the kernel drivers, but it was
> problematic.
Hannu's proprietary OSS did but not the GPL one.
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