My understanding is that setting up dmix with ALSA on a wide variety of hardware is difficult because there are potentially a lot of variations. Compiling this information is difficult to do and it needs to be done before dmix can be made the default.
My understanding is that setting up dmix with ALSA on a wide variety of hardware is difficult because there are potentially a lot of variations. Compiling this information is difficult to do and it needs to be done before dmix can be made the default.