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From: Ed Sweetman <ed.sweetman@wmich.edu>
To: ookhoi@humilis.net
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
	Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	eugene.teo@eugeneteo.net
Subject: Re: 2.6 sound drivers?
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 07:31:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F168920.8080007@wmich.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030717111958.GB30717@favonius>

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.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-17 11:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-16 22:58 2.6 sound drivers? Robert L. Harris
2003-07-16 23:10 ` Rudo Thomas
2003-07-16 23:29   ` Robert L. Harris
2003-07-16 23:46     ` Rudo Thomas
2003-07-16 23:10 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-07-16 23:30   ` Robert L. Harris
2003-07-16 23:39     ` Mike Fedyk
2003-07-16 23:46     ` David Ford
2003-07-17  0:08       ` Robert L. Harris
2003-07-17  1:07         ` Wes Janzen
2003-07-17  1:42         ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2003-07-17  7:26     ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-07-17  8:57       ` Eugene Teo
2003-07-17  9:22         ` Takashi Iwai
2003-07-17 11:19           ` Ookhoi
2003-07-17 11:31             ` Ed Sweetman [this message]
2003-07-17 12:10               ` Alan Cox
2003-07-17 13:11                 ` Ookhoi
2003-07-17 11:32             ` Takashi Iwai
2003-07-16 23:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-16 19:25   ` Max Valdez
2003-07-17  1:05     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-17  2:18       ` Norberto BENSA
2003-07-17 13:13         ` Ian Hastie
2003-07-17 13:25           ` Takashi Iwai
2003-07-17 13:19         ` Terje Kvernes
2003-07-17 16:08           ` Norberto BENSA
2003-07-17 11:22             ` Max Valdez
2003-07-17 16:54             ` Takashi Iwai
2003-07-17 18:43               ` Norberto BENSA
2003-07-17 19:44               ` Ian Hastie
2003-07-18  9:45                 ` Takashi Iwai
2003-07-17 18:46             ` dacin
2003-07-17 19:12               ` MONOLITHIC sound (was Re: 2.6 sound drivers?) Douglas J Hunley
2003-07-17 20:09                 ` dacin
2003-07-16 23:39   ` 2.6 sound drivers? Robert L. Harris
2003-07-16 23:57     ` Matt Reppert

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