There are 2 sound cards: an internal one and an external USB one. Here is listing for aplay -l: **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: AD198x Digital [AD198x Digital] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: System [USB Audio System], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Here is my ~/.asoundrc, however, dmix is only working with hw:0,0 pcm.internal { type hw card 0 } pcm.internal { type dmix ipc_key 1234 slave { pcm "hw:0,0" } bindings { 0 0 1 1 } } ctl.internal { type hw card 0 } pcm.usb-audio { type hw card 1 } pcm.usb-audio { type dmix ipc_key 4321 slave { pcm "hw:1,0" } bindings { 0 0 1 1 } } ctl.usb-audio { type hw card 1 } To test I run aplay -D plug:dmix -D hw:1,0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav from 2 different terminals, but the second instance of it fails with the error "aplay: main:545: audio open error: Device or resource busy" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user