On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 06:51:45PM +0100, Svein Ove Aas wrote: > The driver for your soundcard is single-open, and can therefore only > be used by one program at a time. Either tell xmms and mplayer to use > arts for sound output, start them via artsdsp or install a better > driver. > > AFAIK, all Alsa-drivers do mixing in the kernel.
Nope, ALSA drivers don't do mixing in the kernel at least as far as I know. I just tested my sound card (C-Media 8738) which seems to only support single-open in ALSA as well. :\ Also, I am pretty sure full duplex doesn't have anything to do with this problem, but I may be wrong. Chris
