Re: [Alsa-user] more than one sound dev

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

Hallo,
Ole Jacob Taraldset hat gesagt: // Ole Jacob Taraldset wrote:

> I have a FC3 box with a VIA8233 chipset. Fedora has configured one sound dev 
> (/dev/dsp). Is it possible to create more devices, dsp1, dsp2 etc to be 
> enable several programs to access the sound card simultaneously? I'm using 
> KDE and arts is blocking /dev/dsp, so I would like a separate device for non 
> KDE programs.

This won't help. You'd still have only one soundcard. What you need to
do is use "dmix" whose setup is described on the ALSA wiki (and in
this list's archive) at http://alsa.opensrc.org, page "DmixPlugin"

Ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__