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From: Dan Cowsill <danthehat@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Phonon concurrent access on device
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:33:05
Message-Id: 4ef07b8c0911290632u4ed7e6c0h9447464cccb38ba6@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Phonon concurrent access on device by Florian Philipp
1 On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Florian Philipp
2 <lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote:
3 > Alan McKinnon schrieb:
4 >> On Saturday 28 November 2009 13:58:42 Florian Philipp wrote:
5 >>> Hi list!
6 >>>
7 >>> I recently updated one of my systems to KDE4. Now I have the problem
8 >>> that only one application can access the audio output at a time. If I
9 >>> start a second app (for example playing a video with Kaffeine while
10 >>> Amarok runs but is idle) the second application reports that the device
11 >>> "does not work".
12 >>>
13 >>> Is this normal behavior? How can I fix it?
14 >>>
15 >>> Maybe it's an issue with ALSA but before I investigate this option, I'd
16 >>> like to hear a "works for me" from other users.
17 >>
18 >> Works for me. Also works for most other folks, as no-one else is complaining.
19 >>
20 >> What are your relevant configs?
21 >>
22 >> Are you in any way using (god forbid...) arts? esd? pulseaudio? Any sound
23 >> daemon other than ALSA?
24 >>
25 >>
26 >
27 > Nah, I think ALSA is just misconfigured and doesn't enable HW/SW mixing.
28 > I'll look into it and come back if I don't find it on my own.
29 >
30 > Thanks so far!
31 >
32 >
33
34 When I was first messing around with Linux, I think I was using
35 Mandrake (back when it was called Mandrake) and this issue crept up on
36 me. Back then, if I understand correctly, it was accepted behaviour
37 for hardware to be accessible by one program at a time. There was a
38 fix back then that involved running some sort of daemon, but its been
39 a while since I messed with KDE or Mandrake.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Phonon concurrent access on device Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>