gaim & something else

[Mary Ellen Foster]

On 5/5/05, Matthew Lenz <matthew at nocturnal.org> wrote:
> you shouldn't be having that problem with fc4t2 as i was under the
> impression it used dmix (alsa software mixing) by default.

I do find that pure OSS apps still don't go through dmix -- e.g., if
I'm using skype, I can't do anything else sound-related, and if aRts
is running skype won't connect. Is there anything that you can put
into .asoundrc to make OSS emulation go through dmix?

MEF

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