Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jul 2003 13:19:58 +0200 | From | Ookhoi <> | Subject | Re: 2.6 sound drivers? |
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Takashi Iwai wrote (ao): > At Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:57:04 +0800, > Eugene Teo wrote: > > One thing I noticed abt this ALSA driver is that if I am playing > > say, xmms at the moment, any additional sound output will be delayed > > until I stop xmms. Is there any workaround? > > > > Using Intel(r) AC'97 Audio Controller - Sigmatel 9723 Codec > > the intel chip supports only one stream for playback, so the > succeeding open is blocked since ALSA opens the device in the blocking > mode as default. and it's so for OSS-emulation, too. > > for the oss-emulation, you can change this behavior via the module > option nonblock_open of snd-pcm-oss module. please check > Documentation/sound/alsa/OSS-Emulation.txt.
Wouldn't esd (the enlightment sound daemon) take care of this in userspace? I can have sound out of xmms, firebird, mpg321 and mplayer at the same time with esd. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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