I know at one point during testing I was able to have 2 simultaneous
.wav files play back through external USB speakers, but for whatever
reason dmix appears to just not be happening when I use audio/video apps
like xmms, amarok, vlc, or mplayer. Always the second app will complain
that it canno
>
> Try aplay -Dplug:usb-audio /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav.
>
Multiple instances of that command can now be run simultaneously, but if
I try to run it while XMMS is playing (it is using ALSA output driver) I
get this error again: "ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:864:(snd_pcm_dmix_open)
unable
> Your device must only support stereo but your're trying to play a mono file.
>
> Try aplay -Dplug:usb-audio /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav.
>
Muchas gracias Lee, that was it!
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Daniel
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> pcm.internal {
> type hw
> card 0
> }
>
> pcm.usb-audio {
> type hw
> card 1
> }
>
> Then try:
>
> aplay -Dusb-audio file.wav
>
> >from 2 terminals.
>
> Also, there's no need to configure dmix for the internal card, ALSA
> should do it automatically if you use the
There are 2 sound cards: an internal one and an external USB one. Here
is listing for aplay -l:
List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: AD198
