Hello. I am having some trouble with ALSA on an Intrepid Ibex install that I hope someone can help me with. First, a little info about my setup. btw, please tell me if you know of an easier way to do this. Most of the time my computer is hooked up to two monitors, which is my work configuration. However, when I want to use my computer as a movie player, I switch the second VGA output to my projector. I don't want to restart my work X server when I switch over to the projector (different xorg.conf file), so I run two X servers simultaneously and login as two different users. Using a separate user for the projector has an added advantage of using a different UI theme and different config files for various movie players. The issue is this. If I log in as 'valprj' and use sound for a bit, then log in as 'val' on the other X server and try to use the digital output on the card (spdif), I get this: val@boss:$ alsaplayer -dspdif Prelude.wav snd_pcm_open: Device or resource busy (spdif) This error also happens when I switch back to valprj X server. As soon as I log out one of the users, the sound starts working for the other user. I checked for obvious stuff such as making sure that files under /dev/snd/* are not being used by some process and they are not. What could be locking the device? Thank you, Val ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
