Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

From: Martin Schlemmer
Date: Wed Mar 30 2005 - 14:32:07 EST


On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 17:00 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 03:40:07PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 20:58 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> > > 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.
> > >
> > I guess that's Quake3's problem...
>
> It an glaring example, dmix is unsufficient in one third of my sound
> uses (other two beeing movie and music playback)
> But you advertise dmix like it was silver bullet.
>

Or goes limbo randomly and no mailing to lists seems to result in a
reply (from the alsa peeps at least) ...


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Martin Schlemmer

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