Software Mixing

Software Mixing

Posted Jun 6, 2006 7:17 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Software Mixing by fanopanic
Parent article: Polypaudio, a networked sound server

It's due to legacy support of OSS driver system. It's a bit funky and designed to be used with ancient-style sound cards.

If, on very modern linux systems, if you disable OSS compatability stuff (make sure the oss modules for alsa don't get loaded) then everything should be software mixed by default by dmix. Although disabling OSS will break some maladjusted applications.. most can be configured to use alsa though. This is relatively new with the past 2 kernels or so. Not sure how hot it works though, I still have to mess around with my asoundrc, but then again I have multiple sound cards. :)

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