Re: [gentoo-user] Phonon concurrent access on device
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.
Re: [gentoo-user] Phonon concurrent access on device
On Sunday 29 November 2009 16:32:47 Dan Cowsill wrote: 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. That was a long time ago :-) alsa was very limited at the time and mixing had to be done in software. Which spawned a rash of sound daemons that arts. Thankfully, those days are long gone. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] Phonon concurrent access on device
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. Thanks in advance Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Phonon concurrent access on device
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? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Phonon concurrent access on device
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! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Phonon concurrent access on device
Florian Philipp napsal(a): 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. I had the same problem. I found the right solution here http://noneus.de/?p=50 Miroslav
