At Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:15:58 -0600, Rett D. Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Hi, > > At Tue, 26 Mar 2002 20:47:37 -0600, > Rett D. Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >> I have an issue with multiple OSS/Free and/or native Alsa applications > >> accessing the sound hardware on a IBM Thinkpad A20p. The Thinkpad has a > >> CS46XX sound system. I am not looking for any advanced mixing, just the > >> ability to have a system bell sound play while XMMS is playing some MP3s > >> without one program or the other hanging or telling me that it can't > access > >> /dev/dsp.... I have another system (PIII 850 Desktop) with a SB PCI 512 > >> (emu10k1) card and I don't have these issues. Is the CS46XX driver single > >> threaded or something? I am using alsa 0.9.0beta12 on both systems. Both > are > >> Similiar installs of RH 7.2, with kernel 2.4.16, KDE 2.2.2. with artsd. > > >try xmms arts output plugin, so that all outputs go through artsd. > > Thanks for the reply.... > > I do use the artsd plugin with XMMS..... and I still get applications that > hang until I stop or close the one currently using the sound card....
this should not happen. please check whether really both kde and xmms use arts. i think the easiest way is to configure arts to release the device as soon as it stops (in kde control center). > While the machine with the EMU10k1 card which has an identical > XMMS/KDE/ARTSD config, it works fine.... The issue appears to be specific > to the sound driver or card.... another interesting thing is that if artsd > is running, I can't start Xine with the ALSA audio output option (it hangs), > I have to kill artsd.... But the other system (the desktop above, works > fine in the same scenario). I would use artsd for Xine as well except the > sound quality and Video/Audio sync doesn't work right with arts. emu10k1 supports multiple channel playback "on hardware", i.e. you don't need arts anyway. the behavior of xine is identical with xmms's. so it's no wonder. it's blocked until the alsa device becomes free. Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
