[Alsa-user] resource busy, non locking /dev/dsp suggestion

2014-10-26 Thread Michael Ole Olsen
Would be nice with a non-locking /dev/dsp like in the old days with certain linux supporting sound cards like emu10k1 Nothing worse than getting the locking error over and over again, for years. First with OSS, now with alsa. I hope alsa in the future will give me a simple device name like /dev/

[Alsa-user] volume bars hidden in alsamixer, but amixer works

2010-07-02 Thread Michael Ole Olsen
Hello I have the problem that since recently all controls from my usb mics have disappeared and all my capture for my sblive (emu10k1) has disappeared from alsamixer. It shows Mic, but no "volumegraph", as below: amixer still works. alsamixer -c2: Card: USB Device 0x471:0x311