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[Matthew Lenz]

> On Thursday 28 April 2005 07:30, Mike Hearn wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 08:00:58 -0400, Build System wrote:
>> -lib-1.0.9rc2-1
>>
>> > -------------------
>> > * Fri Apr 22 2005 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> 1.0.9rc2-1
>> > - updated to 1.0.9rc2
>> > - add ainit tool
>> > - dmix is now default pcm device
>>
>> Is this really correct? The impression I got was that whether dmix was 
>> the
>> default or not was supposed to be defined by the card-specific config
>> file. Otherwise it looks like people who have chips that support
>> hardware mixing will have to use dmix anyway.
>>
>> Also does anybody know if alsa-oss is available in Fedora yet? Last time 
>> I
>> looked I couldn't find it, but there are some nice fixes in CVS (I would
>> say that ;)
>
>
> Yeah, I agree with your concerns. I always use non-onboard cards with 
> hardware
> mixing where I can. I don't want to be downgraded to software mixing in 
> those
> cases. I do think they should find a way to disable it for cards that do
> hardware mixing.

what cards support hardware mixing? .. from what I know of alsa it doesn't 
support hardware mixing of multiple streams of audio.  Thats why dmix should 
be enabled by default.

> On the flip side, I am very happy to see dmix come long to replace the 
> crap
> that is artsd and esd.

artsd and esd are for network transparent audio still.  that issue is still 
around.

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