Hi,

  I am new to this community. I need help regarding resolving an issue I have 
been facing for quite sometime. I am trying to run two instances of an open 
source flight simulator (FlightGear) which uses openal. The Problem is that the 
first instance runs perfectly while the second crashes because openal is unable 
to acquire an audio device. The exact error message says: -

AL lib: oss.c:173: Could not open /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy

Audio initialization failed!

   There was an error opening the ALC device

Oops AL error after audio initialization!

OpenAL error (AL_ILLEGAL_COMMAND): constructor (alGenBuffers)

Fatal error: Failed to gen OpenAL buffer.



So someone in the FlightGear community suggested to use Alsa instead of oss and 
make hw:0,1 or /dev/adsp as default device. The problem is I don't find them on 
the computer. Here are some outputs that may shed some light on the matter: -



 cat /proc/asound/cards: 

 0 [Intel          ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel

                      HDA Intel at 0xfdffc000 irq 169





 cat /proc/asound/devices 

  2:        : timer

  3:        : sequencer

  4: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback

  5: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture

  6: [ 0- 0]: hardware dependent

  7: [ 0]   : control



 cat /proc/asound/pcm

 00-00: AD198x Analog : AD198x Analog : playback 1 : capture 2



 cat /proc/asound/hwdep 

 00-00: HDA Codec 0



What do I do? How do I use Alsa and get multiple instances of FlightGear to 
run. I tried dmix as well but no success. Please help me. This is a part of my 
project and I really must get it done.



Thanks a lot in advance.

Ekhlas.

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