[posted the same bug under Debian bugs:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=741554]
I've been having this problem on CrunchBang 11 "Waldorf" which is based off
Debian Wheezy (I think)
I've had to restart the PC 4 times because of this. Every time I try to listen
to something, at rand
I ran into another ugly bug that rendered my PC useless.
It happened right after trying to run a game under DosBox using MUNT (DosBox
= enviroment emulator for old MS-DOS software, MUNT = MT-32/CM-32L sound
module synthetizer emulator)
The error (it flowed continously flooding the terminal window f
So I've been trying to fix this problem for a while now, but I can't seem to
set up ALSA in a way to enable multiple sound sources at once (2 or more
apps/programs to use the soundcard simultaneously). Despite having a dmix
entry in /etc/asound.conf, it still refuses to work the way I intend it to.
> Run pavucontrol, and set the B85 as the default.
>
> Please note that PulseAudio saves the last used card for each application.
Thanks for the reply. I forgot to mention in the original message that I'm
not using PulseAudio, so it's just ALSA to set up. Any way to set the
default soundcard, and
> Don't redefine pcm.default. Put this into /etc/asound.conf or ~/.asoundrc:
>
> defaults.pcm.card PCH
> defaults.ctl.card PCH
>
> Regards,
> Clemens
>
Thanks for the suggestion, however that causes sound to no longer work...
++
Thanks for the answer, Vincent.
> Did you tried simply something like (from my /etc/asound.conf) :
>
> pcm.!default {
> type plug
> slave.pcm "dmix"
> }
> ctl.!default {
> type hw
> card 0
> }
Yes, that causes ALSA to use the HDMI port (at least it's what I assume it
does, I
>
> This older thread might help you, Philip Rhoades had a similar problem.
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-user
lists.sourceforge.net/msg31403.html
>
Sorry for the late reply and thanks for your suggestion! Unfortunately
though, with that configuration it still only one program can use
> Did you tried simply something like (from my /etc/asound.conf) :
>
> pcm.!default {
> type plug
> slave.pcm "dmix"
> }
> ctl.!default {
> type hw
> card 0
> }
>
> Also before change asound.conf, you can test dmix with command $aplay
> file.wav -Dplug:dmix
>
> Regards,
> VV
>
