Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271418AbTGQLFM (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 07:05:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271422AbTGQLFM (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 07:05:12 -0400 Received: from ookhoi.xs4all.nl ([213.84.114.66]:37340 "EHLO favonius.humilis.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271418AbTGQLFD (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 07:05:03 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 13:19:58 +0200 From: Ookhoi To: Takashi Iwai Cc: Linux-Kernel , eugene.teo@eugeneteo.net Subject: Re: 2.6 sound drivers? Message-ID: <20030717111958.GB30717@favonius> Reply-To: ookhoi@humilis.net References: <20030716225826.GP2412@rdlg.net> <20030716231029.GG1821@matchmail.com> <20030716233045.GR2412@rdlg.net> <1058426808.1164.1518.camel@workshop.saharacpt.lan> <20030717085704.GA1381@eugeneteo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Uptime: 13:09:31 up 38 days, 49 min, 30 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1123 Lines: 25 Takashi Iwai wrote (ao): > At Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:57:04 +0800, > Eugene Teo wrote: > > One thing I noticed abt this ALSA driver is that if I am playing > > say, xmms at the moment, any additional sound output will be delayed > > until I stop xmms. Is there any workaround? > > > > Using Intel(r) AC'97 Audio Controller - Sigmatel 9723 Codec > > the intel chip supports only one stream for playback, so the > succeeding open is blocked since ALSA opens the device in the blocking > mode as default. and it's so for OSS-emulation, too. > > for the oss-emulation, you can change this behavior via the module > option nonblock_open of snd-pcm-oss module. please check > Documentation/sound/alsa/OSS-Emulation.txt. Wouldn't esd (the enlightment sound daemon) take care of this in userspace? I can have sound out of xmms, firebird, mpg321 and mplayer at the same time with esd. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/