linux badly needs a standard sound daemon

Sat Dec 13 02:57:14 UTC 2003

On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 11:48, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 12:53, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> > Yes, but IIRC ALSA mixes the sound inputs automatically thus software
> > like ESD and ARTS become unneeded.
> 
> I'm not sure that you RC.  I think some ALSA drivers allow multiple
> sound inputs, but not all.  Anyone know more detail on this?

ALSA has now a plugin ("dmix") that can do software mixing of multiple
sources. I don't think it would be the equivalent of a "sound daemon". 

-- Fernando