Re: [LAU] Alsa or pulseaudio?

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On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Leslie P. Polzer
<sky@email-addr-hidden-project.de>wrote:

>
> Jennifer wrote:
>
> > I am now using Alsa but can't seem to get multi channel sounds,
> > I.E speech and/or system sounds, I only have speech.
>
> You need to buy a proper sound card with hardware mixing (e.g.
> SB Audigy) or configure Alsa to do software mixing. Why modern
> distributions don't configure this properly on their own puzzles
> me, but they probably just throw in the horrible PulseAudio
> without thinking a lot about it.
>
> Oh wait, I just saw an nice bit of news: ALSA 1.0.9rc2 or later
> supports software mixing by default, but you probably don't have
> that version yet.
>
> The bottom line is that you need to write the proper incantation
> into some text file. I don't need that so I'll leave that to
> the others to explain who have such a setup...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Leslie
>
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