FC3 wishlist - sound server

Tue Jul 6 20:54:14 UTC 2004

On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 20:49 +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 19:21 +0200, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 19:02 +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote:
> > 
> > > What about including a good sound server and use it by default? I don't
> > > know what's best, but Jack seems ok.
> > 
> > I still don't see the point of using a sound server when ALSA allows for
> > software/hardware sound mixing from different sources.
> just tested, not for me
> XMMS set to alsa output
> console: aplay something.wav - remains blocked until xmms is stopped

By default, ALSA is *not* configured to perform mixing. It must be
explicitly enabled. There has been a thread about this:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00989.html