I have a Realtek ACL650 on-board sound card which ALSA (0.9.6) supports through a driver (for ALSA 0.9.4) available from the Realtek website. I've installed ALSA and the new driver with no trouble, and my sound works, but there are still problems.
The big problem I have is that two programs cannot use the sound card at the same time. If one program is invoked while another is using the sound, the new program will hang until the first program has relinquished control. >From what I know, it seems that ALSA, the Realtek driver, or something else is >blocking multiple openings of /dev/dsp, possibly because something thinks my card >cannot handle mixing of multiple channels internally; I'm pretty sure that my card >can. Does anyone know why I can't have multiple program simultaneously use my sound card? Should I contect Realtek about their driver? Is it a problem that the Realtek driver was meant for an earlier version of ALSA than what I have installed? Also, if you're reading this and you happen to know the location of a good tutorial on setting up surround sound, please, let me know ;) Thank you, Nathan Gaylinn ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
