Re: Sound Device Not Shared
On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 23:43:08 -0600
Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> wrote:
> ankur.kumar@axa.com.au wrote:
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> > I'm using ALSA and the only issue is if an application is using Sound
> > device (/dev/dsp) and another
> > application is trying to use it, it says "/dev/dsp" is already in use.
> >
> > What can I do it share the sound device??
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> If I understand ALSA correctly, you should not be using /dev/anything. ALSA
> specifies devices differently, e.g. "hw:0,0" for card 0, device 0. If your
> app is wanting to use /dev/dsp, it may not be set up to use ALSA. Either
> configure it to use ALSA instead of OSS, or run the program with an ALSA
> wrapper, like aoss (man aoss for help).
Yeah, thats definitely for OSS apps. The .asoundrc I provided earlier allows OSS apps to get software mixing through alsa, I guess. Alsa-aware apps should work fine and alsa should provide a software mixer automatically. Its tricky though. I think a lot of apps are in transition from oss to alsa. seems to me that a lot of them are buggy with alsa and if they have capability to use oss, sometimes it works better. ymmv.
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