There is a big difference w.r.t. to volume whether I use mplayer to play, say, a flash audio file or a Adobe's flash player within Firefox. The latter's volume is far too small. Additionally, the flash player, even if not active (but open in a Firefox tab), blocks ALSA somehow: wl@linux-nvf0:~> mplayer xxx.flash MPlayer dev-SVN-r29116-4.3-openSUSE Linux 11.1 (i686)-Packman [...] Playing xxx.flash. libavformat file format detected. [lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0 [lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1 VIDEO: [H264] 320x240 0bpp 36.917 fps 28.3 kbps ( 3.5 kbyte/s) ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264) ========================================================================== ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding) FAAD: compressed input bitrate missing, assuming 128kbit/s! AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400) Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio)) ========================================================================== [AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm_hw.c:1321:(snd_pcm_hw_open) \ open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: Device or resource busy [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm_dmix.c:1008:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave [AO_ALSA] Playback open error: Device or resource busy [AO ESD] latency: [server: 0.37s, net: 0.00s] (adjust 0.37s) AO: [esd] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Is this a known problem? BTW, the same problem exists in kernel 2.6.27.21 too. My exact audio configuration can be found here: http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=83af62fe275ef0f5fa1663c78f10663d4e80c078 Werner -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org