Re: [Alsa-user] Applications are blocking each other

2012-03-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/03/12 23:53, Florian Lindner wrote: > Hello! > > My system is a Linux 3.2.11 (Archlinux) / KDE 4.8.1. > > The system used to work perfectly. Today I have installed a new > soundcard (Asus Xonar Essence STX) in addition to my onboard > soundcard. >[...] > It seems that only one application can

Re: [Alsa-user] Applications are blocking each other

2012-03-17 Thread Ede Wolf
I can confirm that behaviour. I wonder, wether there is an alsa solution to this, as I would like not to install or even use pulseaudio. Wasn't dmix supposed to be able to handle this? Until recently I was working around with jack for vlc, but since vlc 2 this does somehow not work anymore. Am

[Alsa-user] Applications are blocking each other

2012-03-17 Thread Florian Lindner
Hello! My system is a Linux 3.2.11 (Archlinux) / KDE 4.8.1. The system used to work perfectly. Today I have installed a new soundcard (Asus Xonar Essence STX) in addition to my onboard soundcard. florian@horus ~ % cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB