Re: play-sound-file & esd

[Andreas Schwab]

David Hansen <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, 03 May 2006 08:48:56 +0200 Jan Djärv wrote:
>
>> Another issue is the sound drivers in the kernel.  The old
>> OSS drivers does not allow more than one open to the sound
>> device, but the newer ALSA drivers do.  The new ALSA drivers
>> are default in the Linux kernel now, so the original problem
>> does not occur if you are using ALSA drivers.
>
> But only if your Soundcard has a hardware mixer (as most
> cheap on board chips don't have).  Or do i have to enable
> this feature explicitly in my kernel config?

The current ALSA library implements a software mixer.

Andreas.

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