After having read your response I finally got around to trying and fixing
the problem.
Basically after having looked into some possible dmix fixes I decided to
have a go with pulseaudio and (contrary to previous experiences) this solved
the problem rather than giving problems :).
Thanks a bunch Robert.
2009/10/20 Robert Hancock <hancock...@gmail.com>
> On 10/19/2009 02:02 PM, Ubuntu Linuxy wrote:
>
>> Hey all, I'm new to this mailing list, searched through the archives
>> quickly and couldn't find anyone with the same problem as me so decided
>> to sign up :).
>>
>> Anyhow here goes:
>> I got myself a HDTV for usage as monitor and for sound, it's connected
>> to my (nVidia GPU based) laptop (Fujitsu Siemens Xi 2528 should it be of
>> interest).
>> Basically I started by selecting to selecting the IEC958 and IEC958
>> Default PCM switches and managed to generate sound however the sound
>> kept breaking, like in the middle of a song the sound would just stop
>> and I'd have to restart whatever I was listening to (on occation
>> multiple times and not always getting it back).
>>
>> After reading up on the article on digitalout at the unofficial wiki:
>> http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/DigitalOut#Set_your_default I set my
>> default card to my digital output direcetly (0,1) and this resolved
>> these issues however a new one arised. Basically the applications
>> playing sounds lock the device meaning I can only ever have sound from
>> one source simultaniously, this in itself is pretty annoying. What is
>> more of an issue is the fact that I generally have to close these
>> applications (not only stop the sound from playing) to be able to have
>> another source play sound. For example if I have played a flash video
>> then I will have to close down my browser to listen to something
>> different. Not sure if it makes any difference or not but I am able to
>> listen to multiple sounds generated by the same application, for
>> instance the sounds of two flash videos will play simultaniously while a
>> flash video and a file opened in mplayer won't both be allowed to play.
>>
>
> Well, it's because that asound configuration bypasses dmix software mixing,
> so once an application has opened the audio device then no other app can. I
> believe it's possible to change the default output device with dmix, but I
> don't have the details on how to do this.
>
> Alternatively, if your distro has PulseAudio, you can just change the
> default output device and things should just work (and people say it has no
> benefits..?)
>
>
>> Some more info
>> Distro: Arch Linux, 32-bit
>> I've posted config files and output from the "aplay -l" command here:
>> http://pastebin.com/m1b888e6b
>>
>> If I'd be able to get some help resolving this I'd be most grateful.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>> Xenio
>>
>>
>>
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