Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

[Yoav Luft]

alsasound is on boot runlevel, so it's running. Still, some apps, like
flash movies in firefox, don't behave nicely.

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
> You didn't mention whether you tried running the alsasound service in order
> to get dmix.  If enabled, it doesn't matter what sound device the apps want
> to open.
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> On 12/05/2009 05:51 PM, Yoav Luft wrote:
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>> hmmm. I've managed to focus the problem: Some programs try to access
>> to sound device called "hw:0,0" and there for do not allow it to be
>> shared. MPD was one of them, and when I changed the setting in
>> mpd.conf to using "default" it works. The flash player, though, still
>> tries to access the hardware directly. I'm not sure how to reconfigure
>> it. I'm using the adobe player.
>> Can anyone think of away of making all programs use "default" sound
>> output rather than "hw:0,0"?
>> Should I report that as a bug to the mpd package maintainer, that the
>> default setting try to access the sound device directly?
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 6:12 AM, Joshua Murphy<poisonbl@×××××.com>  wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:43 PM, walt<w41ter@×××××.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 12/03/2009 09:08 PM, Joshua Murphy wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>> Lately, I've had zero issues with alsa pretty much configuring itself
>>>>> properly, given I'm using the in kernel alsa drivers for my systems...
>>>>> and it hasn't required any manual configuration of dmix or similar to
>>>>> function properly. Last time I used a separate sound daemon (aside
>>>>> from a short stent with Ubuntu on my netbook that, I think, had me
>>>>> using pulseaudio), I was running esound to manage audio from a
>>>>> headless box over my network... and ESD was playing nicely with other
>>>>> straight alsa apps on the same box...
>>>>
>>>> I discovered a few weeks ago that I could completely delete all traces
>>>> of arts, pulse, *and* esd, and still I can listen to a podcast from
>>>> npr.org with firefox and play an mp3 using audacious at the same time.
>>>> (Which drives me totally nuts, BTW, and I did it only as a test.)
>>>>
>>>> As you say, alsa seems to DTRT by itself these days.  The only thing
>>>> I'm not sure about is whether the gnome-panel volume/mixer applet is
>>>> now doing what esound used to do.
>>>>
>>>> If you still have esound installed you can try it yourself.  Just
>>>> remove the arts, esd, and pulse USE flags first, then remove any/all
>>>> of those packages from the machine and revdep-rebuild.  It's amazing
>>>> how many packages are linked against esound and AFAICT they no longer
>>>> need to be.  (This applies to gnome, of course.)
>>>>
>>>> OTOH, I haven't tested every sound-related app on my machine, so I
>>>> might be missing some important exceptions.
>>>
>>> All Gnome's volume/mixer applet does, AFAIK, is the same as alsamixer,
>>> on a less cli/ncurses interface... just volume control for the
>>> channels the card tells the driver to tell the alsa subsystem it has
>>> ;) ... it doesn't have anything more, really, to do with the actual
>>> 'mixing' than that, and it works just as well without it, as evidenced
>>> by my netbook with ratpoison, no arts, esd, pulseaudio, etc...
>>> listening to a radio stream on one aterm that's running mplayer
>>> (outputting to bare alsa) and getting prompt and proper alerts from
>>> Skype at the same time.
>>>
>>> 'Course, all the anecdotal evidence in the world won't make the
>>> problem the OP is seeing.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Poison [BLX]
>>> Joshua M. Murphy
>>>
>>>
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