[SLE] ALSA question

From: Hans du Plooy (hansdp_at_sagacit.com)
Date: 02/28/05

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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:40:51 +0200

    Hi all,

    At home I have a Soundblaster Live. This card can handle multiple audio
    streams, for example, I can listen to music, and the kde plings and plongs
    will still sound, and if someone phones me on skype, it will ring while the
    music is playing.

    At work, I have an old Soundblaster 128, which doesn't have this functionality
    in hardware. I know arts does this, but arts always lag (ever tried to watch
    a movie with sound going through arts?), and not all sound apps can talk to
    arts.

    I also know that ALSA can handle this. I've seen it done, but for all the
    things I've tried, I can't get it to work. I know it can be done, I've seen
    it done (saw it on a audiophile's PC, old redhat with alsa added by hand).

    Does anybody know how to do this?

    Thanks 

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Hans du Plooy
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hansdp at sagacit dot com
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