[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#522072: Bug#522072: Regression of dmix plugin setup

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* zlinuxman at wowway.com [090331 10:02 -0500]
> Package: libasound2
> Version: 1.0.16-2
> 
> According to the Debian Wiki, libasound2 has automatically enabled
> the dmix plugin for sound cards which do not support hardware sound mixing
> since version 1.0.10-2.  (See http://wiki.debian.org/ALSA under the heading
> "Sharing a card among multiple processes".)

Also mentioned in /usr/share/doc/libasound2/changelog.Debian.gz ;)

> Well, here we are at version
> 1.0.16-2, and dmix was not set up during installation.

How did you checked this?

> I installed on an IBM ThinkPad 600, which has a built-in CS4237B
> sound chip, which does not support hardware mixing.  The wiki
> refers to an example file,
> /usr/share/doc/libasound2/examples/asound.conf_dmix,

No!
Please read

"in *prior* versions, look at
/usr/share/doc/libasound2/examples/asound.conf_dmix"

> which can serve as
> an example of how to configure dmix manually, but the entire examples
> directory no longer exists under /usr/share/doc/libasound2.

Of course yes. See again
/usr/share/doc/libasound2/changelog.Debian.gz

> Please either change the wiki to document how to set this up manually,
> or

Not needed.

> better yet, fix the regression of a previous feature of libasound2.

Which regression do you mean?

To get more info's to the dmix plugin please see:
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Dmix

What do you want?

Elimar

-- 
  Do you smell something burning or ist it me?