On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Florian Philipp <li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote: > Alan McKinnon schrieb: >> On Saturday 28 November 2009 13:58:42 Florian Philipp wrote: >>> Hi list! >>> >>> I recently updated one of my systems to KDE4. Now I have the problem >>> that only one application can access the audio output at a time. If I >>> start a second app (for example playing a video with Kaffeine while >>> Amarok runs but is idle) the second application reports that the device >>> "does not work". >>> >>> Is this normal behavior? How can I fix it? >>> >>> Maybe it's an issue with ALSA but before I investigate this option, I'd >>> like to hear a "works for me" from other users. >> >> Works for me. Also works for most other folks, as no-one else is complaining. >> >> What are your relevant configs? >> >> Are you in any way using (god forbid...) arts? esd? pulseaudio? Any sound >> daemon other than ALSA? >> >> > > Nah, I think ALSA is just misconfigured and doesn't enable HW/SW mixing. > I'll look into it and come back if I don't find it on my own. > > Thanks so far! > >
When I was first messing around with Linux, I think I was using Mandrake (back when it was called Mandrake) and this issue crept up on me. Back then, if I understand correctly, it was accepted behaviour for hardware to be accessible by one program at a time. There was a fix back then that involved running some sort of daemon, but its been a while since I messed with KDE or Mandrake.
