Re: [orca-list] sound on feisty

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

You are right about no two oss sounds can play together, and neither can
an oss (native) and an alsa sound, but this is how far it extends with
the limitation. If the oss is used through alsa compatability then you
can play alsa sound as well. 

As I use orca with speech-dispatcher and espeak (so using alsa for
output of speech), when ever I need to use an audio app that only
supports alsa then I start it with the aoss script.

Regarding dmix, the newer versions of alsa enable dmix should hardware
mixing be unavailable as default.

From
Michael Whapples
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 09:27 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> It's my understanding that the problem will persist so long as any audio
> output is directed at oss, whether or not it's native oss or alsa's oss
> emmulator. If for no other reason speech-dispatcher is laudable for
> working to gett oss out of our hair. We desparately need that oss
> dependency out of our lives, as I've previously ranted on this list and
> in many other venues.
>
> PS: The alsa software mixer is called dmix, not at all well documented
> unfortunately. However, I believe all major Linux distributions should
> come with alsa reasonably configured to use dmix during installation.
>
>
> Janina