From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NGKJ0-0004ZV-Kv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:37:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 63DCEE0803; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 22:37:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39E32E0803 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 22:37:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D98A167FBB for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 22:37:12 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.12 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.12 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.521, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id uQoo1kcx8wUl for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 22:37:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2333A67F9D for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 22:37:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NGKIE-0000HZ-G1 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:36:58 +0100 Received: from athedsl-393088.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.87.126]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:36:58 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-393088.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:36:58 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:36:36 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-393088.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091202 Thunderbird/3.0 In-Reply-To: Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 4315cdf8-5fc2-4c2d-b3ed-b2b03714f8a4 X-Archives-Hash: 73ae76ba71a912337a0da790827fb04e On 12/03/2009 11:23 PM, Yoav Luft wrote: > Hi, > On my dell Vostro 1520, with intel hda ICH9 82801I sound card > (xSTAC92HD71B3, according to /proc/asound/card0/codec), only one > application can access the sound card at a time. This probably means > that applications access the hardware, and not some software mixer. I > tried to follow information in the alsa wiki > (http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/pcm_plugins.html#pcm_plugins_dmix) > for setting manually dmix, but couldn't configure anything working. I > could find any good documentation (and I don't have plenty of time to > dig in it, it's the middle of the semester). Does anyone can help on > the topic? I think all you need to do is to put the "alsasound" service in your default runlevel. rc-update add alsasound default At least that's what I remember doing when I tried ALSA a few months ago. You might need to reboot though so that the card is freed first.