Multiple consumers of /dev/dsp

[Ulrich Spoerlein]

On Thu, 21.07.2005 at 14:43:45 +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> In the past I'm sure that we supported the mixing of audio in the kernel
> so that multiple applications could open /dev/dsp at the same time.  Was
> this a function of the audio card driver, or of the audio subsystem?
> Currently on my new machine I don't get any mixing, and applications
> fail to open /dev/dsp if it's already open by something.
> 
> Am I imagining that this use to the case or isn't it enabled by default?

You want to set hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=4 (or higher). The SB Live! has 4
hardware channels (not need to set anything) other cards only have one
channel and need the "virtual channel" setting.

Ulrich Spoerlein
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