J M Needham wrote: Not an expert. Some comments meant to be helpful. > Hi, > > Apologies for the apalling subject line. I have a Toshiba satellite pro > [never buy one] which runs Ubuntu Gutsy with an Intel HDA built in > soundcard. I have compilted alsa 1.16 with > the apropriate options (according to the hda-intel ubuntu howto: > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HdaIntelSoundHowto ), and I get sound > out. What I don't have is that > on my PC, I can play sounds with clients connected to Jack to Alsa which > makes sound, at the same time as playing music through some player > connected directly to alsa (not using jack). Unable to do this on my > laptop. > > Can't help with this. Didn't think it was possible to run separate sound streams to alsa when jack was enabled as it grabs the device. I think you must have been running a sound server that you weren't aware of. Or you had more than one sound device. Or the player was also using jack. > The problem is that I have no idea where to start looking for the > problem. Other problems include not being able to kill processes using the > soundcard (revealed with lsof /dev/snd/*) that belong to programs that > have crashed, so the > soundcard remains blocked (kill -9 pid doesn't seem to work). If anyone > knows of an apropriate fm that I can > rt then that would be great or any options that I should have included at > compile time. Or even better if anyone can explain what's going on I'd > really appreciate the time. > Have you tried alsactl restore after killing the zombie process? This should restore the initial state to the sound device. I haven't seen this behavior; when an app crashes, it seems that the sound card becomes available to other apps. > Apologies if this is stupid; I have tried googling lots as I'm sick of > these two problems. > > Jonty > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
