On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 13:18 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: > I'm using alsa for years now and it has always been fine; especially it > has always been possible without any problems to have multiple apps > running that access the sound card. For example i could start audacious > to play some music and to totem and watch a movie _with_ sound; or play > some music and start a game etc. .... Yesterday, i noticed, that this is > no longer possible: For example, if i try to play a mp3 in gmplayer > while running audacious i get: > > alsa-init: using device default > alsa-lib: pcm_dmix.c:914:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave > alsa-init: playback open error: Invalid argument > Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound. >
well, it finally turned out that this problems where related to an ~/.asoundrc that has been created by some strange program. removing that file made alsa happy again ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
