Re: Alsa Sound + channels

Jeremy Chin wrote:

>As far as I know, the only sound chip that alsa can use to do hardware
>mixing is the Emu10k1, used in most Creative cards now (sblive, audigy,
>etc) and a few higher-end motherboards. Otherwise, you can do some weird
>stuff with the dmix plugin to get it working, but it's messy and doesn't
>work well. See http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=DmixPlugin and
>http://resolute.ucsd.edu/diwaker/articles/howtos/howto-alsa-dmix.html .
>I've got it set up, but most programs seem not to be able to use it - if
>xmms is playing, only a few programs can also grab the sound card (and
>most of those programs are also music players, which is fairly
>redundant...) On the other hand, alsa on my SB live works fine with as
>many channels as I need, with no dmix or anything.
>   --Jeremy
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Thanks for that, Jeremy, this is closer to what I want to know. This is 
rather annoying, because the same card works just fine under Windows 
without much hassle and not under Linux (just from a user's 
perspective). Maybe I should just shell out few bucks to get Audigy 
sound card (how much are they nowadays anyway?) OK, I'll give that 
reading a go and see if I am adventurous enough to try it.