> If your audio chipset doesn't have a hardware mixer, and about of half of laptop chipsets don't, then you can't play more than one stream at a time. Not true

> If your audio chipset doesn't have a hardware mixer, and about of half of laptop chipsets don't, then you can't play more than one stream at a time. Not true. ALSA with dmix can do software mixing, and dmix is enabled by default. I also really miss ESD, which also enabled software mixing (this was before dmix) but was far simpler and wasn't this over-complicated mess like PulseAudio.