[TriLUG] Debian on Dell

[crimsun at fungus.sh.nu]

On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 07:05:18PM -0500, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> But scsi emulation suffices for 2.4 kernels?

Yes.

> > Intel8x0s do not support hardware multiopen. ALSA provides a software
> > multiopen mixer at the API level known as dmix (which you can combine
> > with dsnoop for dshare), so you can multiplex simultaneous sounds. This
> > of course requires most applications to be updated to support dmix, but
> > it does work fairly well on this Dell.
> 
> Hmm. Interesting. So the problem is with the hardware and not with Arts?

Correct, though it's not really a "problem" and simply a design issue.

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Daniel T. Chen          crimsun at fungus.sh.nu
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