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Date:      Mon, 25 Jul 2005 22:28:38 +0200
From:      Ulrich Spoerlein <spoerlein@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
To:        Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org>, multimedia@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Multiple consumers of /dev/dsp
Message-ID:  <20050725202838.GA60172@galgenberg.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050721134345.GQ73338@genius.pact.cpes.susx.ac.uk>
References:  <20050721134345.GQ73338@genius.pact.cpes.susx.ac.uk>

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On Thu, 21.07.2005 at 14:43:45 +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> In the past I'm sure that we supported the mixing of audio in the kernel
> so that multiple applications could open /dev/dsp at the same time.  Was
> this a function of the audio card driver, or of the audio subsystem?
> Currently on my new machine I don't get any mixing, and applications
> fail to open /dev/dsp if it's already open by something.
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> Am I imagining that this use to the case or isn't it enabled by default?

You want to set hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=3D4 (or higher). The SB Live! has 4
hardware channels (not need to set anything) other cards only have one
channel and need the "virtual channel" setting.

Ulrich Spoerlein
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Ok, which part of "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."
didn't you understand?

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