Re: ALSA vs. OSS

From: Markus Hästbacka
Date: Tue Jan 20 2004 - 09:38:12 EST


On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> At Tue, 20 Jan 2004 16:17:13 +0200,
> Markus Hästbacka wrote:
> ...
>
> then it's a different problem.
>
Aha.
> sb live has a single capture (record) device although it can play
> multiple streams at the same time. when both apps try to open
> fullduplex, the later one is blocked, because the capture device is
> already occupied.
> if it's the case, it is not a bug but the correct POSIX behavior.
>
> as a workaround, try to add the following to /etc/modprobe.conf:
>
> alias snd-pcm-oss nonblock_open=1
>
> this will set the OSS PCM devices as non-blocking.
>
I'll try that
Thanks,
Markus

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