On 25/05/2019 10:06, [email protected] wrote:
I thought, alsa could handle multiple sources of sound
simultanously...
Hm. It should. I use pulseaudio now, but when I was still using just
ALSA alone, it would by default use dmix to play multiple sources at the
same time.
Check if you have ALSA configuration files and delete them (or rather
move them to a backup location)
~/.asoundrc
/etc/asoundrc
If any of those files exist, delete them. Reboot to be 100% sure ALSA
gets rid of whatever config it was using before. The default config of
ALSA should use dmix then. I think...
If that doesn't help, see how each application is configured. If the
audio settings of the application are set to use an ALSA hardware
device, then yeah, it might block all other applications from using the
sound device. Normally, you want to select the "default" ALSA device in
each application's settings.
