On Thursday 29 March 2007, Frank Mehnert wrote: > On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Jim Popovitch wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 21:50 +0200, Frank Mehnert wrote: > > > No idea so far how to solve Jim's problem ... > > > > Question: Who cares about Jim's problem? ^W^W^W^W^W^W^ Opps! ;-) What > > I meant to say is: do you know if VBox tries to gain an exclusive lock > > on /dev/dsp (or whatever), and if it doesn't get exclusivity does it do > > something different and continue. As I mentioned before, if /dev/dsp is > > in use (i.e. mplayer is running) when VBox starts, then VBox continues > > to work as expected. However if VBox is started first, no other > > application can play sound until the VBox guest is stopped/suspended. > > Vladimir already wrote that ALSA does not open /dev/dsp (it uses /dev/snd/* > instead) You can verfiy that with > > strace -f -s1024 -o ~/VBoxSDL.log /usr/bin/VBoxSDL -vm <VM name>
Hmm, just did some investigation and saw that I have the same problem when running a Linux 2.6.17 kernel or older. In that case, libasound2 starts a dmix server which appearently doesn't work right. 2.6.18+ does not need such a server and therefore work fine. Kind regards, Frank -- ## InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH, http://www.innotek.de ##
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