Re: [Alsa-user] software mixing with dmix

[Frank B. <fb...@fo...>]

Hallo,

lets not shut out the list, they have more knowledge than me. ;)

Ben Ford hat gesagt: // Ben Ford wrote:

> Frank Barknecht wrote:
> 
> >Could you post your exact .asoundrc and /etc/asound.conf? You also
> >might to read http://alsa.opensrc.org/?DmixPlugin for a detailed 
> >instruction
> >on how to get dmix to work.
> > 
> >
> 
> I deleted both, no .asoundrc and no /etc/asound.conf.  

Good. It's best to start simple. 

> Now reading through that page, it seems like dmix should work out of
> the box w/ some command line arguments to aplay, etc.  So from a
> default install I started at step 1.
> 
> / 1) Install aoss, alsaplayer, mpg123(rsp. mpg321).
> done
> // 2) Test basic dmix on alsa with: /
> 
> alsaplayer -o alsa -d plug:dmix some.mp3 &
> aplay -D plug:dmix some.wav &
> alsaplayer -o alsa -d plug:dmix some.mp3 &
> 
> Now here is where I have troubles.  alsaplayer just quits.  aplay plays 
> a little bit and segfaults.  Both run fine without the plug:dmix argument.

Okay, then there is a problem with dmix. It *could* be that the ALSA
modules in kernel 2.6.2 are too old. I don't know which version is in
2.6.2, but I remember, that with 2.6.0 they were really old. But maybe
you can built the module from 1.0.2 or current CVS?

> These are the packages I have installed:
> ben@pluto ben $ qpkg -I | grep alsa
> media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.2 *
>        Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Library [ 
> http://www.alsa-project.org/ ]
> media-libs/alsa-oss-1.0.2 *
>        Advanced Linux Sound Architecture OSS compatibility layer. [ 
> http://www.alsa-project.org/ ]
> media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.2 *
>        Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Utils (alsactl, alsamixer, 
> etc.) [ http://www.alsa-project.org/ ]
> media-sound/gnome-alsamixer-0.9.3 *
>        Gnome 2 based ALSA Mixer [ 
> http://www.paw.co.za/projects/gnome-alsamixer ]
> media-sound/alsaplayer-0.99.76 *
>        Media player primarily utilising ALSA [ http://www.alsaplayer.org/ ]
> 
> and ALSA compiled into kernel 2.6.2

ciao
-- 
 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__