>I am using ALSA (0.5.12a driver, 0.5.10b libarary, 0.5.10 utilities) on
>my IBM Thinkpad T21 (using the snd-card-cs461x drivers). A problem
>occurs when I am runing an audio application (like xmms or realplayer)
>and concurrently try to open an URL with flash content on my web browser
>(either netscape or mozilla). The browser hangs requiring a kill and a
>restart.
>
>Has anyone else encountered this problem and know a work around for it?
>Will the ALSA development release solve the problem?
>
>By the way, I dont recall encountering the problem when running the OSS
>driver in the 2.4.x kernel. I switched to ALSA because a few of my audio
>applications were unsuccessful in attempting to open the /dev/dsp in
>RDWR mode.
This is a known problem with Mozilla/Flash. Flash will lock up if it
can't open /dev/dsp; xmms can prevent other applcations from opening
it. (Maybe Flash opens it only if it can get sole use?)
You can avoid the problem by using a sound multiplexer, like KDE's aRts
multiplexer. Set the xmms output to "aRts Driver" (assuming you have
it). Probably GNOME has something similar.
Jonathan Ryshpan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Though a program be but three lines long,
someday it will have to be maintained.
-- The Tao of Programming
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