On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 05:55:24PM -0500, ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote:
> For years, ALSA has allowed me to have two apps open at one time - for
> example, a YouTube video could be playing in my browser while vlc was also
> open, paused on playback of a 3-hour mp3.
>
> That's changed with a recent Debian update. Now, if a YouTube video is
> playing and I try to start vlc, I get an error message:
>
> The audio device "dmix:CARD=CK804,DEV=0" could not be used:
> Device or resource busy.
>
> What changed with that recent update? I have no idea. After lots of
> Internet searching, I put this into an .asoundrc file:
>
> -
>
> pcm.!default {
> type plug
> slave.pcm "dmixer"
> }
>
> pcm.dmixer {
> type dmix
> ipc_key 1024
> slave {
> pcm "hw:0,0"
> period_time 0
> period_size 1024
> buffer_size 4096
> rate 44100
> }
> bindings {
> 0 0
> 1 1
> }
> }
>
> ctl.dmixer {
> type hw
> card 0
>
> -
>
> That made no meaningful change to the situation that I can see. How can I
> bring back the original ALSA behavior that served me so well for years?
Do you know if pulseaudio is installed?
dpkg -l | grep pulseaudio
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --hobie
>
>
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