Thank you Daniel, I'll check bug #34818. I am afraid changing device 'surround51' to 'plug:surround51' does not solve anything: xine was already using 'plug:surround51' and now I invoke mplayer with 'plug:surround51' and still both applications cause alsa to output, continuously, 'ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:802:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave' to '.xsession-errors'
I hope somebody else takes over this bug and finds a solution :-(. Best regards, Manolo. -- Ubuntu5.10 not configured for Alsa device:surround51;Alsa-esd incompatibilities. https://launchpad.net/bugs/26483 -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
