Re: gnome-sound

[Mark Gray <markgray iago nac net>]

Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:

> Mark Gray <markgray@iago.nac.net> writes:
> 
> > OSS did not support multiplexing from what I understand, but alsa
> > supports multiplexing now,
> 
> Only on hardware that supports it natively.  Software mixing is still
> required for those cards which don't.  (Like my CS4624.)

You are right -- I was going by a reponse to the question on the
alsa-user list which suggested that it was done for all cards now, but
a quick grep of the archive shows that his was the only post which
said this -- shows how important knowing who-really-knows-what is :-)