Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jul 2003 07:31:44 -0400 | From | Ed Sweetman <> | Subject | Re: 2.6 sound drivers? |
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Ookhoi wrote: > Takashi Iwai wrote (ao): > >>At Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:57:04 +0800, >>Eugene Teo wrote: >> >>>One thing I noticed abt this ALSA driver is that if I am playing >>>say, xmms at the moment, any additional sound output will be delayed >>>until I stop xmms. Is there any workaround? >>> >>>Using Intel(r) AC'97 Audio Controller - Sigmatel 9723 Codec >> >>the intel chip supports only one stream for playback, so the >>succeeding open is blocked since ALSA opens the device in the blocking >>mode as default. and it's so for OSS-emulation, too. >> >>for the oss-emulation, you can change this behavior via the module >>option nonblock_open of snd-pcm-oss module. please check >>Documentation/sound/alsa/OSS-Emulation.txt. > > > Wouldn't esd (the enlightment sound daemon) take care of this in > userspace? I can have sound out of xmms, firebird, mpg321 and mplayer at > the same time with esd.
Most people would rather not use esd, especially when you dont need to use any userspace deamon to do the job.
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