[alsa-devel] Software mixer at kernel level

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Mauricio Nuñez
<mauricio_n2000 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, I was wondering if it could be possible to implement a low-level software mixer (like OSS4's vmix) since almost everybody needs it and PulseAudio causes too much overhead on not-so-old systems.
>

What kind of overhead?  Which systems?  Details please.

It works perfectly for me with Ubuntu 8.10 on my work PC, with a
relatively old and buggy version of Pulse.

Lee