Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

[Julien Wajsberg <julien.wajsberg@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:14:22 -0500, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:59 +0100, Julien Wajsberg wrote:
> > - audio works too. The only problem is that two applications can't
> > open /dev/dsp in the same time.
> 
> Not a problem.  ALSA does software mixing for chipsets that can't do it
> in hardware.  Google for dmix.
> 
> However this doesn't (and can't be made to) work with the in-kernel OSS
> emulation (it works fine with the alsa-lib/libaoss emulation).  So you
> are technically correct in that two OSS apps can't open /dev/dsp at the
> same time, but there is no problem with multiple apps sharing the sound
> device, as long as they use the ALSA API (which they should be using
> anyway).

Okay, good to know. Then I'll have to find out why beep-media-player
doesn't work with alsa :-)

-- 
Julien