lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2003]   [Jul]   [17]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: 2.6 sound drivers?
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.

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:46    [W:0.999 / U:0.388 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site