Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
> On Mittwoch 06 Mai 2009, Alex Schuster wrote:
> > Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
> > > On Dienstag 05 Mai 2009, Alex Schuster wrote:
> > > > I cannot access /dev/dsp once Amarok 2 has started playback, even
> > > > if the playback was stopped. I have to close Amarok, then /dev/dsp
> > > > is accessible again. Does anyone know why this is?
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > no problem here. So.. maybe you forgot something. dmix should do
> > > everything for you. Are you using the xine backend for amarok/phonon?
> >
> > Thanks for the info, Armin. So I know it _should_ work.
> >
> > I'm using the xine backend. I forgot about this settings until you
> > mentioned phonon, that let me find it again in the system settings.
[...]
> you could also check the xine settings - start xine, got to the audio
> settings and check them.
Not many settings there... okay, I had to enable expert mode. I played
around with some of the the settings, but I see no change. And when I set
the audio driver to null, xine does not give audio output, but KDE/Amarok
still do. I restarted alsasound and KDE, same result. How can that be?
Wonko
