[gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-07 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: You *might* want to look into OSS4 if your card is supported by it :P It will require a rebuild of many packages though (oss -alsa in make.conf) and it requires using non-portage packages from an overlay and rebuilding your kernel with sound support completely

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/07/2009 03:24 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: You *might* want to look into OSS4 if your card is supported by it :P It will require a rebuild of many packages though (oss -alsa in make.conf) and it requires using non-portage packages from an overlay and rebuilding your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-05 Thread daid kahl
To say that a person only needs to hear one sound at a time is like telling someone to close one eye. Hey man, you're display's only 2D.  What do you need that second eye for anyway? Regards, daid I say that because I have a bad eye.  I wish I could see good with both because things

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-05 Thread Yoav Luft
hmmm. I've managed to focus the problem: Some programs try to access to sound device called hw:0,0 and there for do not allow it to be shared. MPD was one of them, and when I changed the setting in mpd.conf to using default it works. The flash player, though, still tries to access the hardware

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-05 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:36:36 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 12/03/2009 11:23 PM, Yoav Luft wrote: Hi, On my dell Vostro 1520, with intel hda ICH9 82801I sound card (xSTAC92HD71B3, according to /proc/asound/card0/codec), only one application can access the sound card at a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-05 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:44:50 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 12/04/2009 03:12 AM, walt wrote: Most people don't have any need for more than one application to use the sound card at the same time. I was under the impression that it's quite the opposite. For example I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-05 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:47:18 +0200, App Des app4...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 00:36 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/03/2009 11:23 PM, Yoav Luft wrote: Hi, On my dell Vostro 1520, with intel hda ICH9 82801I sound card (xSTAC92HD71B3, according to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-05 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 17:51:35 +0200, Yoav Luft yoav.l...@gmail.com wrote: hmmm. I've managed to focus the problem: Some programs try to access to sound device called hw:0,0 and there for do not allow it to be shared. MPD was one of them, and when I changed the setting in mpd.conf to using

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
You didn't mention whether you tried running the alsasound service in order to get dmix. If enabled, it doesn't matter what sound device the apps want to open. On 12/05/2009 05:51 PM, Yoav Luft wrote: hmmm. I've managed to focus the problem: Some programs try to access to sound device called

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-05 Thread Yoav Luft
alsasound is on boot runlevel, so it's running. Still, some apps, like flash movies in firefox, don't behave nicely. On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: You didn't mention whether you tried running the alsasound service in order to get dmix.  If enabled, it

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-05 Thread walt
On 12/05/2009 01:36 PM, Yoav Luft wrote: alsasound is on boot runlevel, so it's running. Still, some apps, like flash movies in firefox, don't behave nicely. Can you give us a URL for a flash movie so I can test?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-05 Thread daid kahl
@Yoav Luft, I don't know if this is the same problem, maybe it doesn't relate at all. You should start by checking that there's no pulseaudio or something like that monopolizing the alsa output, because maybe the problem is not alsa itself. But, if alsa is running alone, I'd start by checking

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-05 Thread daid kahl
alsasound is on boot runlevel, so it's running. Still, some apps, like flash movies in firefox, don't behave nicely. Can you give us a URL for a flash movie so I can test? Since I'm having trouble too, here is a youtube video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoAbMfg9_Uk Maybe you'll like

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
You *might* want to look into OSS4 if your card is supported by it :P It will require a rebuild of many packages though (oss -alsa in make.conf) and it requires using non-portage packages from an overlay and rebuilding your kernel with sound support completely disabled. For what it's worth,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-04 Thread Yoav Luft
My problem is exactly as others described: Usually, mpd is running and playing my favorite tunes. Then, all of the sudden, I decide that I would like watch some youtube movie, or something, so I stop mpd, watch the movie, but when I want to play my music again mpd complains that the audio device

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-04 Thread Nevynxxx
walt wrote: Most people don't have any need for more than one application to use the sound card at the same time. As others have pointed out, that depends on your definition of need. Most people don't worry about realtime mixing, but they still want multiple sounds to be able to happen at once

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-04 Thread walt
On 12/03/2009 09:08 PM, Joshua Murphy wrote: ... Lately, I've had zero issues with alsa pretty much configuring itself properly, given I'm using the in kernel alsa drivers for my systems... and it hasn't required any manual configuration of dmix or similar to function properly. Last time I used

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-04 Thread App Des
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 00:36 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/03/2009 11:23 PM, Yoav Luft wrote: Hi, On my dell Vostro 1520, with intel hda ICH9 82801I sound card (xSTAC92HD71B3, according to /proc/asound/card0/codec), only one application can access the sound card at a time. This

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-04 Thread daid kahl
I ran into a similar problem a good while back where only one sound would play at a time, it was annoying as heck.  If I changed desktops, was playing a CD or even just left a tab open with some sound thingy playing, I couldn't hear anything else.  I couldn't hear Kopete if someone was trying

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-04 Thread Dale
daid kahl wrote: I ran into a similar problem a good while back where only one sound would play at a time, it was annoying as heck. If I changed desktops, was playing a CD or even just left a tab open with some sound thingy playing, I couldn't hear anything else. I couldn't hear Kopete if

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-04 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:43 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/03/2009 09:08 PM, Joshua Murphy wrote: ... Lately, I've had zero issues with alsa pretty much configuring itself properly, given I'm using the in kernel alsa drivers for my systems... and it hasn't required any manual

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/03/2009 11:23 PM, Yoav Luft wrote: Hi, On my dell Vostro 1520, with intel hda ICH9 82801I sound card (xSTAC92HD71B3, according to /proc/asound/card0/codec), only one application can access the sound card at a time. This probably means that applications access the hardware, and not some

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-03 Thread walt
On 12/03/2009 01:23 PM, Yoav Luft wrote: Hi, On my dell Vostro 1520, with intel hda ICH9 82801I sound card (xSTAC92HD71B3, according to /proc/asound/card0/codec), only one application can access the sound card at a time... I hope Nikos's suggestion will help you, but just in case it doesn't:

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/04/2009 03:12 AM, walt wrote: Most people don't have any need for more than one application to use the sound card at the same time. I was under the impression that it's quite the opposite. For example I would still like to hear my MSN messenger go *ping* when someone talks to me while

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-03 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:12 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/03/2009 01:23 PM, Yoav Luft wrote: Hi, On my dell Vostro 1520, with intel hda ICH9 82801I sound card (xSTAC92HD71B3, according to /proc/asound/card0/codec), only one application can access the sound card at a time... I hope

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-03 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/04/2009 03:12 AM, walt wrote: Most people don't have any need for more than one application to use the sound card at the same time. I was under the impression that it's quite the opposite. For example I would still like to hear my MSN messenger go *ping* when