Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

[Lee Revell]

On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 15:20 +0200, caszonyi@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 01:19 +0200, Hannu Savolainen wrote:
> >> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 13:44 +0100, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> >>>> Second - you still didn't explain why this allows you to conclude
> >>>> that sound mixing should in no way be done inside the kernel.
> >>>
> >>> It works perfectly right now in userspace.  Therefore it should not be
> >>> in the kernel.
> >> So all the complaints about dmix problems in the ALSA mailing lists are
> >> just exceptions that prove the above statement to be true.
> >
> > No, it just means ALSA like the kernel is a work in progress.  Anyway
> > almost all the known issues have been fixed.  It works perfectly for the
> > vast majority of users.
> >
> 
> Ok. It seems i'm a minority.
> I switched xmms to alsa
> If i play a stream in xmms using alsa output and try to play in the same 
> time a movie in mplayer the last message printed by mplayer is
> alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: default
> and then it hangs until i press stop button in xmms. When i press the stop 
> button in xmms the movie begins to play. If i press now the play button in 
> xmms it says:
> ** WARNING **: alsa_setup(): Failed to open pcm device (default): Device 
> or resource busy
> 
> So it seems that dmix is not working by default in kernel 2.6.15
> Alsa userspace tools are version 1.0.8.

Sorry disregard last message.

Upgrade alsa-lib to 1.0.9 or later (preferable 1.0.10) to get dmix
working by default.  The default PCM is defined
in /usr/share/alsa/cards/$YOUR-CARD.conf which is part of alsa-lib.

Lee

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