[plug] Alsa, esd, quake and xmms

[Craig Ringer]

On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 11:36, Tim White wrote:
> If anyone knows of a way to get both XMMS and quake to work at the same 
> time then please tell me.

man esddsp :-)

That's certainly one way. Another way is to get good sound hardware that
supports hardware mixing, eg an SB Live.

> I was thinking that ALSA would be better than oss but if it can't allow 
> simultaneous use of the sound card then its no use to me.

Check out dmix. Here's one reference I found:
http://opensrc.org/alsa/index.php?page=DmixPlugin

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Craig Ringer