Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

From: Tomasz Torcz
Date: Tue Mar 29 2005 - 13:57:49 EST


On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 06:14:22PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:59 +0100, Julien Wajsberg wrote:
> > - audio works too. The only problem is that two applications can't
> > open /dev/dsp in the same time.
>
> Not a problem. ALSA does software mixing for chipsets that can't do it
> in hardware. Google for dmix.
>
> However this doesn't (and can't be made to) work with the in-kernel OSS
> emulation (it works fine with the alsa-lib/libaoss emulation). So you

quake3 still segfaults when run through "aoss". And can't be fixed, as
it's closed source still.

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