Havoc Pennington (hp(a)redhat.com) said:
Arjan asks that we move everything to use libasound rather than
esound
or OSS. Because ALSA lets multiple apps output sound at once, esound
isn't really needed; the only functionality we lose is that remote apps
can't play sound on the local system, but that functionality was pretty
hosed with esound anyway.
Well.... ALSA by default only lets multiple apps output *up to the
number of HW channels the card has*.
Doing more requires configuration.
Bill