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[Nathan Grennan]

On Thursday 28 April 2005 07:30, Mike Hearn wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 08:00:58 -0400, Build System wrote:
> -lib-1.0.9rc2-1
>
> > -------------------
> > * Fri Apr 22 2005 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> 1.0.9rc2-1
> > - updated to 1.0.9rc2
> > - add ainit tool
> > - dmix is now default pcm device
>
> Is this really correct? The impression I got was that whether dmix was the
> default or not was supposed to be defined by the card-specific config
> file. Otherwise it looks like people who have chips that support
> hardware mixing will have to use dmix anyway.
>
> Also does anybody know if alsa-oss is available in Fedora yet? Last time I
> looked I couldn't find it, but there are some nice fixes in CVS (I would
> say that ;)


Yeah, I agree with your concerns. I always use non-onboard cards with hardware 
mixing where I can. I don't want to be downgraded to software mixing in those 
cases. I do think they should find a way to disable it for cards that do 
hardware mixing.

On the flip side, I am very happy to see dmix come long to replace the crap 
that is artsd and esd.