Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932409AbWAFNne (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:43:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932410AbWAFNne (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:43:34 -0500 Received: from anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.85]:49168 "EHLO anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932409AbWAFNnd (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:43:33 -0500 Message-ID: <43BE73F2.6030803@superbug.demon.co.uk> Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 13:43:14 +0000 From: James Courtier-Dutton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Calin Szonyi CC: Lee Revell , Hannu Savolainen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal References: <20050726150837.GT3160@stusta.de> <200601031522.06898.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20060103160502.GB5262@irc.pl> <200601031629.21765.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20060103170316.GA12249@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <20060103203732.GF5262@irc.pl> <9a8748490601031256x916bddav794fecdcf263fb55@mail.gmail.com> <20060103215654.GH3831@stusta.de> <9a8748490601031411p17d4417fyffbfee00ca85ac82@mail.gmail.com> <0D76E9E1-7FB0-41FD-8FAC-E4B3C6E9C902@dalecki.de> <1136486021.31583.26.camel@mindpipe> <1136503996.847.85.camel@mindpipe> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1946 Lines: 54 caszonyi@rdslink.ro wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > >> On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 01:19 +0200, Hannu Savolainen wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: >>> >>>> On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 13:44 +0100, Marcin Dalecki wrote: >>>> >>>>> Second - you still didn't explain why this allows you to conclude >>>>> that sound mixing should in no way be done inside the kernel. >>>> >>>> >>>> It works perfectly right now in userspace. Therefore it should not be >>>> in the kernel. >>> >>> So all the complaints about dmix problems in the ALSA mailing lists are >>> just exceptions that prove the above statement to be true. >> >> >> No, it just means ALSA like the kernel is a work in progress. Anyway >> almost all the known issues have been fixed. It works perfectly for the >> vast majority of users. >> > > Ok. It seems i'm a minority. > I switched xmms to alsa > If i play a stream in xmms using alsa output and try to play in the > same time a movie in mplayer the last message printed by mplayer is > alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: default > and then it hangs until i press stop button in xmms. When i press the > stop button in xmms the movie begins to play. If i press now the play > button in xmms it says: > ** WARNING **: alsa_setup(): Failed to open pcm device (default): > Device or resource busy > > So it seems that dmix is not working by default in kernel 2.6.15 > Alsa userspace tools are version 1.0.8. > > config and dmesg attached dmix happens in alsa-lib (libasound...) So, which version of the kernel you have will not make any difference to dmix. Update your alsa-lib userspace to a more up to date version, and dmix will then work out of the box. - 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/