Hi Martin! This is the case, if your soundcard doesn't support multi-open in hardware. This is the case in cheap PCI cards like SB 128 and similar. You can overcome this with using the dmix alsa plugin which tries to mix the samples down in software and only uses a single hardware open in the backend. I can tell you a way to configure tomorrow if you like to. Should work with alsa 0.9 and up I think. Greets, Daniel Am Mittwoch, 17. Dezember 2003 13:53 schrieb Martin Wegner:
Hi folks,
some time ago there was a discussion about using aRts and ALSA in parallel in this list. The bottomline seemed to be that, as soon as one uses ALSA as backend for aRts (and/or selects 'autosuspend'), everything should be fine. Maybe I didn't get the point, but for me this doesn't work:
As long as artsd is running (with or without autosuspend) all programs using an ALSA driver fail. Only when I terminate artsd, they suddenly work.
Since a couple of programs can't use aRts (or - for whatever reason - it sounds horrible) it would be great if there were a posibility to use both, aRts _and_ ALSA (w/o aRts frontend).
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Martin