The Screamin' Firefox Blues

[Mike Newman]

You say you have an NVIDIA board. Have you tried the proprietary
nforce drivers from nvidia.com? They'll taint your kernel but IIRC
they enable hardware mixing (while the standard snd-intel8x0 driver
does not).

On 7/22/05, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Or you could get an emu10kX card that allows at least 32 programs to use
> sound at the same time with no software mixing. :)
Seconded. I got a Sound Blaster Live! Value for $15 (but you can
probably find a better deal). Free, native drivers from the vendor.
It's too bad that software mixing isn't very mature in ALSA. I wanted
to be able to use Teamspeak while playing Diablo 2 (which runs great
in stock WINE if you're looking for a cheap multiplayer game) and ALSA
software mixing wouldn't allow me to record and play sound at the same
time!

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