SOLVED Re: Sound mixing: Help configure dmix for flash, xmms, totem or make default.
On 04/17/2007 06:24 PM, Ralph Katz wrote:
> How can I make alsa dmix default for all sound?
>
> On sarge, esound provided sound mixing for this box. Upgrading to etch,
> I changed to alsa and think dmix can provide a better solution. I found
> good help at http://alsa.opensrc.org and currently have dmix working
> nicely for gaim, mplayer, and gkrellm by configuring each one with a
> simple command line or option change.
>
> Could asoundconf help set a default for dmix? I can't understand its
> man page. There are no current dotfiles for alsa/asound.
>
> If each app must be configure for dmix individually, how can these apps
> be set for dmix: flash plugin, xmms, totem? The syntax that worked for
> the apps already configured doesn't seem to fit here.
>
> Pointers and suggestions appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Ralph
Too many hours of searching led me to this drop-in solution:
Create /etc/asound.conf containing:
# /etc/asound.conf - this lets multiple ALSA clients use the audio
device at once
# Example /etc/asound.conf or ~/.asoundrc file showing how
# to configure ALSA so that a dmix plugin is used by default
#
# The writing of alsa-lib configuration files is explained in
# /usr/share/doc/libasound2-doc/html/index.html, provided by the
# libasound2-doc package.
#
# Make ALSA apps default to using dmix plugin instead of hw plugin
# (Exclamation point is needed in order to override the assignment to
# pcm.default in /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.)
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmix"
}
#
# Make OSS apps default to using dmix plugin too
pcm.dsp0 {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmix"
}
#
ctl.mixer0 {
type hw
card 0
}
Pasted verbatim from http://www.liddicott.com/~sam/?p=14 . Perhaps this
may be helpful to others as well.
Regards,
Ralph Katz
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