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The only thing I hate in Linux which would make it the best-
The only thing I hate in Linux which would make it the best-
..which is that I can't have multiple applications running which use audio output... For example: I like to have my music playing in XMMS while playing Dragon Ball Z: Buu's Fury on VisualBoyAdvance (btw, I need a little help with the game.. I'm in chapter 6, but don't know where Kami's Lookout is..)..
But that is not possible!
In Window$ XP, I can play Megaman X8 at the same time as my music is playing in Winamp..
But that is not possible!
In Window$ XP, I can play Megaman X8 at the same time as my music is playing in Winamp..
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I have the 2.6.18 kernel and ALSA installed too, but there is definately no software mixing done.. I have KDE and artsd is installed, but how can I configure programs to use it? For example, Cedega allows only configuration for ALSA and OSS... so how can I workaround that to be run through artsd??brain wrote:There is builtin software mixing in ALSA. You don't even need strange dmix-configuration files. This is supported in some of the latest kernels in the 2.6 series (running 2.6.18 myself). Finally Linux has a sound sub system capable of software mixing without using sound servers in user space.
Thanks!
I thought you had an sblive? Well get an sblive and you'll get multiple audio streams
(note, as you compare this to win, this was only standardized in windows around 98, 99, when everything started to be piped to directsound, which handled all the mixing, previously it had been a little sporadic, it was possible but some programs didn't come set with it automatically - for example winamp - so you had to change the output to use directsound if you wanted winamp playing music when you played starcraft for example (: )
anyway, I always used sb cards so I never encountered the problem myself, it was actually quite a revelation that in this day and age you still can't get audio stream mixing in the hardware with some cards, but the sblives always had it, even back when ALSA didn't exist and all you had was OSS drivers
(note, as you compare this to win, this was only standardized in windows around 98, 99, when everything started to be piped to directsound, which handled all the mixing, previously it had been a little sporadic, it was possible but some programs didn't come set with it automatically - for example winamp - so you had to change the output to use directsound if you wanted winamp playing music when you played starcraft for example (: )
anyway, I always used sb cards so I never encountered the problem myself, it was actually quite a revelation that in this day and age you still can't get audio stream mixing in the hardware with some cards, but the sblives always had it, even back when ALSA didn't exist and all you had was OSS drivers
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines...
jackd is a sound daemon but not all apps know jack. So....... while apps like XMMS, Audacious, Ardour, Mplayer are great for use with jack others are not e.g. ANYTHING that uses gstreamer as a backend like Amarok because gstreamer-jack plugin is not maintained anymore (unless someting has changed very recently) and lots (most?) games are not jack aware.thamarok wrote: EDIT: Btw, can't JACK do this for me?