On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 00:36 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 12/03/2009 11:23 PM, Yoav Luft wrote: > > Hi, > > On my dell Vostro 1520, with intel hda ICH9 82801I sound card > > (xSTAC92HD71B3, according to /proc/asound/card0/codec), only one > > application can access the sound card at a time. This probably means > > that applications access the hardware, and not some software mixer. I > > tried to follow information in the alsa wiki > > (http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/pcm_plugins.html#pcm_plugins_dmix) > > for setting manually dmix, but couldn't configure anything working. I > > could find any good documentation (and I don't have plenty of time to > > dig in it, it's the middle of the semester). Does anyone can help on > > the topic? > > I think all you need to do is to put the "alsasound" service in your > default runlevel. > > rc-update add alsasound default > > At least that's what I remember doing when I tried ALSA a few months > ago. You might need to reboot though so that the card is freed first. > >
I think it is best to add it to the "boot" runlevel intead of the "default".
