How to disable alsa's dmix plugin? (FC4)

[Mariano Draghi]

StarQuake wrote:
> Mariano Draghi wrote:
>> (snip)
>> I asked about this in the xine-list, and someone suggested trying 
>> disabling "dmix" in alsa, if I was using it. I didn't know if I was 
>> using it, but after some googling, I came to the conclusion that this 
>> has been enabled by default in the latest alsa-lib release (am I right?)
>>
>> I'd like to try the suggestion I was given, that is, I'd like to 
>> disable the dmix plugin. But I have no clue on how to do that, and I 
>> couldn't undertand _anything_ from the zillion files that are 
>> installed in /etc/alsa :(
>>
>> (snip)
>>
> AFAIK dmix is enabled by default, but not used. To make my laptop use 
> dmix (because it hasn't got hardware mixing) I had to make a file called 
> ~jan/.asoundrc.
> 

The intel8x0 soundcard doesn't support hardware mixing via ALSA, so if 
dmix were disabled, I wouldn't have any mixing at all (i.e., my system 
wouldn't be able to play more that one sound at a time).

I don't have any .asoundrc in my home directory, and I'm experiencing 
sound mixing... so dmix is enabled using some other more "global" 
(distro) config.

¿Does anybody know how this is accomplished in Fedora Core 4, and how 
could I temporaly disable it? ¿Is there any setting to let dmix software 
mixing coexist with analog 5.1 sound?

-- 
Mariano