From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271355AbTGQJHy (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 05:07:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271357AbTGQJHy (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 05:07:54 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:8969 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271355AbTGQJHx (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 05:07:53 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:22:46 +0200 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: Linux-Kernel Subject: Re: 2.6 sound drivers? In-Reply-To: <20030717085704.GA1381@eugeneteo.net> References: <20030716225826.GP2412@rdlg.net> <20030716231029.GG1821@matchmail.com> <20030716233045.GR2412@rdlg.net> <1058426808.1164.1518.camel@workshop.saharacpt.lan> <20030717085704.GA1381@eugeneteo.net> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.6.1 (Upside Down) SEMI/1.14.4 (Hosorogi) FLIM/1.14.4 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Kashiharajing=FE-mae?=) APEL/10.2 MULE XEmacs/21.4 (patch 12) (Portable Code) (i386-suse-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.4 - "Hosorogi") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Takashi