From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from concerto.rednote.net ([66.92.170.139]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1E4f9P-0007yx-00 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:37:15 -0400 Received: from concerto.rednote.net (concerto [127.0.0.1]) by concerto.rednote.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7FDbEkX023100 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:37:14 -0400 Received: (from janina@localhost) by concerto.rednote.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j7FDbEY1023099 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:37:14 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:37:14 -0400 From: Janina Sajka To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20050815133714.GB18507@rednote.net> References: <20050815025516.GA17183@taylor.homelinux.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050815025516.GA17183@taylor.homelinux.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Operating-System: Linux concerto.rednote.net 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4smp Organization: Capital Accessibility LLC (http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com) X-PGP-Key: http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com/JaninaSajka_gpg_key.html Subject: Re: Alsa question X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 13:37:15 -0000 alsa only emmulates oss. Since oss only supports one sound source at a time, alsa can't fix that behavior by emmulating what oss does and how it behaves. That wouldn't be logical now, would it? Lorenzo Taylor writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have the latest Debian alsa packages installed and am running a 2.6 kernel. I > have the following section in my /etc/asound.conf, which is the sample that > ships with the libasound2 library: > > # Make OSS apps default to using dmix plugin too > pcm.dsp0 { > type plug > slave.pcm "dmix" > } > > This makes me think that through alsa's oss emulation, anything that writes to > /dev/dsp0 should be able to use dmix. However, this is not the case. Is there > something else I need to do to make this section work the way it appears it > should? Does this section not even do what it appears to do? Do I have to use > aoss, since using it would seem to make the above section of my asound.conf > unnecessary and the configuration would seem to make aoss unnecessary? > > Thanks for any help, > Lorenzo > - -- > Living your life is a task so difficult, it has never been attempted before. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFDAAQUG9IpekrhBfIRAtfWAKC1k1p0nH/bKb5bVFlYwFW3Qp6EHQCcDv6r > GuhFvgQezxlnRNDPoJio8/E= > =NQaf > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Bringing the Owasys 22C screenless cell phone to the U.S. and Canada. Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina@freestandards.org http://a11y.org