Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271432AbTGQLQx (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 07:16:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271433AbTGQLQx (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 07:16:53 -0400 Received: from mx2.it.wmich.edu ([141.218.1.94]:27130 "EHLO mx2.it.wmich.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271432AbTGQLQv (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 07:16:51 -0400 Message-ID: <3F168920.8080007@wmich.edu> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 07:31:44 -0400 From: Ed Sweetman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030628 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ookhoi@humilis.net CC: Takashi Iwai , Linux-Kernel , eugene.teo@eugeneteo.net Subject: Re: 2.6 sound drivers? References: <20030716225826.GP2412@rdlg.net> <20030716231029.GG1821@matchmail.com> <20030716233045.GR2412@rdlg.net> <1058426808.1164.1518.camel@workshop.saharacpt.lan> <20030717085704.GA1381@eugeneteo.net> <20030717111958.GB30717@favonius> In-Reply-To: <20030717111958.GB30717@favonius> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1265 Lines: 33 Ookhoi wrote: > 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. Most people would rather not use esd, especially when you dont need to use any userspace deamon to do the job. - 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/