On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 16:57 +0200, Csillag Tamas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am in the process of migrating a source of a streaming station from
> winXP to linux.
> 
> This machine records from a soundcard and with ices2 and realproducer
> (well the use of this program is not my decision, but I convinced it to
> use alsa via alsa-oss wrapper) and sends streams to a central server
> where other listeners can connect.
> 
> Well, I tought that recording from the soundcard with multiple instances
> is a piece of cake. But I did not succeeded.
> 
> I get:
> [2006-05-26  16:28:21] EROR input-alsa/alsa_open_module Failed to open audio 
> device hw:0,0: Device or resource busy
> If another (alsa) application is recording at the same time.
> 

You have instructed the app to bypass dmix by using the "hw:0,0" device.
It should be using "default".

What app is this error coming from?

> About the machine:
> It was Debian sarge at the begining but I upgraded to etch to get alsa
> version 1.0.11-2 because this page
> http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=DmixPlugin
> said I do not need any trick to get dmix working
> "for 1.0.9rc2 and higher" which is the thing I think I need.
> 
> So:
> /proc/asound/cards
> 0 [Live           ]: EMU10K1 - SB Live [Unknown]
>                      SB Live [Unknown] (rev.10, serial:0x100a1102) at 0xb800, 
> irq 185
> 

Dmix should not even be needed with this card - it has hardware mixing.

Lee




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