On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 12:47:33PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 19:07 +0530, François Patte wrote: > > Bonjour, > > > > I try to have both xmms and skype at the same time: I would like to hear > > people calling me while I am listening some music with xmms. > > > > Skype and xmms use both ALSA, but when I want to use skype while xmms is > > playing, I get this message: > > > > ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:832:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave > > > > How to configure this, if possible? > > It's not possible, Skype blocks all other apps from using the sound > card. The only solution is to get Skype fixed.
I am using skype and skype_dsp_hijacker and it works correctly with other sound apps running. But it is under OSS from www.opensound.com . You can try it with OSS ouput and aoss LD_PRELOAD wrapper from ALSA or both skype_dsp_hijacker and aoss. The problem is that skype(OSS) opens device in RW mode and uses one fd descriptor for both read and write operations. If aoss separates this operations than this should work without need for using skype_dsp_hijacker wrapper. You should have ALSA default defined so not only output but also input chanels are mixed - I think that the newest ALSA package have this defined properly. It is also worth it to use aoss with your WWW browser (firefox, mozilla, seamonkey etc.) because of some proprietary apps/plugins which use OSS - some JRE, FLASH for example. Flash also opens device in RW mode so we have the same problem here. Regards -- Adam Tlałka mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ^v^ ^v^ ^v^ System & Network Administration Group - - - ~~~~~~ Computer Center, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland PGP public key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
