On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Peter Heatwole wrote:
> Ben Cummings wrote:
>> So, given that i should be able to do multiple opens of the sound
>> device, but i can't, what can i do to fix it?
>
>    My first question is what ALSA release are you using?  I think the
< ... >
>   To check if your current driver supports multiple opens, type:
>
> aplay -l
>
>    You should have three devices ("CS46xx", "CS46xx - Rear", and "CS46xx - IEC958")
> listed with 31 subdevices under "CS46xx" and "CS46xx - Rear".
>    If not, you need to upgrade to a newer release.

Aha!  It turns out that the version of alsa-modules (which are what Debian
calls the actual drivers) was out of date (0.9.0rc1) because there was
no prepackaged version that agreed with my kernel.  So, i rebuilt it from
source, and now it works just fine!

Thanks for the help!

b.c



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