Audacious bad at sharing?

Shiznitz · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 12:43 am Post subject: Audacious bad at sharing?

Hey guys. I'm trying to run WoW (in Wine) and Audacious simultaenously but the programs do not seem to like sharing my sound card. I am using ALSA built into the kernel and have an NForce 3 (AC' 97) card built-in to my motherboard.

I was looking through the forums and didn't see any workarounds.

Shiznitz

nenolod · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 3:04 am Post subject:

Most AC97 cards do not have a hardware mixer, and thus require dmix.

Shiznitz · Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:58 am Post subject:

I'm sorry, dmix? I don't seem to be finding this package anywhere. Maybe you're taling about a type of package, but I'm still trying to learn some terminology of the forums.

Shiznitz

sirdilznik · l33t Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 731

Dmix is a software mixer that allows you mix multiple streams when your hardware does not have the capability to do so on its own. As far as I know you don't need to emerge anything, it's part of alsa, but it may need to be configured. Here's the Gentoo Guide, the dmix how-to is not quite halfway down the page.