Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

From: Rene Herman
Date: Mon Jun 25 2007 - 18:53:46 EST


On 06/25/2007 07:00 PM, Tomasz KÅoczko wrote:

$ strace -f -e trace=file galeon 2>&1 | grep dev/snd
[pid 28593] open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDWR) = 46
[pid 28593] open("/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 47

[ ... ]

[pid 30173] open("/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_ASYNC) = -1 EBUSY (Device or resource busy)
[..]

/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p is busy ? YES because it was oppened by another application in non blocking mode which makes device .. unavalable to other :)

Nothing to do with O_NONBLOCK:

$ strace -f -e trace=file firefox 2>&1 | grep dev/snd
[pid 1889] ....
[pid 1889] open("/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 38
[pid 1889] open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDONLY) = 37
[pid 1889] open("/dev/snd/timer", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 37

$ strace -f -e trace=file ogg123 foo.ogg 2>&1 | grep dev/snd
[pid 1916] ...
[pid 1916] open("/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_APPEND) = 5
[pid 1916] open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDONLY) = 4
[pid 1916] open("/dev/snd/timer", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 4

And both the youtube video (flash 9) and my ogg file play fine. Now, I don't actually know about that O_ASYNC thing you have in there but it looks as though you're simply not using dmix. Which card, and if you specify an ALSA device somewhere, is it the "default" device?

And fix your inbound mailer -- it's rejecting my posts.

Rene.

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