Re: [Alsa-user] Play two sounds at once

[Lee R. <rlr...@jo...>]

On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 18:48 +0100, Wulf Assols wrote:
> Hi Lee!
> 
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 15:41 +0200, Ismail Donmez wrote:
> > > Cuma 16 Aral?k 2005 15:33 tarihinde, Darrell Blake ?unlar? yazm??t?: 
> > > > > Use a recent version of ALSA which setups dmix automagically, so you can
> > > >
> > > > play
> > > >
> > > > > do this without configuring anything.
> > > >
> > > > I think I'm already using the latest version of ALSA. I'm running the
> > > > 2.6.14.3 kernel and whichever version of ALSA comes with it.
> > > 
> > > Then your soundcard might not be able to do dmix at all. Worth a check 
> > > alsa-wiki.
> > 
> > Any soundcard can do dmix, as the point of dmix is to do mixing in
> > software for devices that can't do it themselves.  Some are just more
> > work to get the .config right, like usb-audio and ICE1724, so it does
> > not work OOTB yet.
> > 
> > Lee
> what do you have to do to make dmix work with the ICE17xx chip? (i got an
> ICE1712)

Make sure you have alsa-lib 1.0.10 or newer installed and remove
your .asoundrc and it should work.  I don't have one of these devices
but IIRC people have reported it should work.  Maybe someone who has
this working with ALSA 1.0.10 or newer can help more?

Lee