Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:51:24 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: Major Linux sound bugs |
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On 03/24/2010 01:12 PM, turbolad995@yahoo.co.uk wrote: > Hi. I don't know who to contact about this, but nobody seems to know > how to fix this problem or where/why it's occurring. Here's the > lowdown: in Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, some programs will > only work with sound when you close ALL other programs first. I've > mentioned this on Launchpad, but nobody seems to know why or how to > fix it. > > Thank you for reading.
This isn't a kernel issue. Usually this is due to those programs incorrectly accessing device-specific ALSA devices like "hw:0", etc. rather than just using the "default" PCM device. Doing this bypasses software mixing and requires exclusive access to the sound device.
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