how to share audio output?

rahmed · 02-20-2005, 11:19 PM

i was wondering if its posible to share the audio output in linux, without using kde. what i mean is to play music in xmms and to have the sounds from gaim work at the same time. remember, i use a windowmanager, and dont plan on using some bloated desktopenviro. thanks

__J · 02-20-2005, 11:30 PM

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...eneric#softmix

dunno if it will work for you but worth a shot.

rahmed · 02-20-2005, 11:45 PM

yeah, i dont think that will work. any other suggestions?

kornerr · 02-21-2005, 11:26 AM

What audio card do you have? I had prbl with my AC'97, now i haven't. When asking such questions - tell more info...

oneandoneis2 · 02-21-2005, 01:22 PM

All I had to do to allow multiple apps to use sounds at the same time was create a file called .asoundrc with the contents below, and make sure everything was told to use ALSA (Gaim needs to be set to use the command "aplay %s" for this)

Quote:

pcm.dmixer {
type dmix
ipc_key 1024
slave {
pcm "hw:0,0"
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_size 8192
rate 44100
}

bindings {
0 0
1 1
}
}

pcm.dsp0 {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixer"
}

pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixer"
}

pcm.default {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixer"
}

ctl.mixer0 {
type hw
card 0
}

rahmed · 02-22-2005, 05:16 PM

sorry for not giving enough info, its funny because im scolding people for not giving info either. but yeah , its ac97 based. but there isnt any kind of software mixing or something like arts?