Basically after having looked into some possible dmix fixes I decided to have a go with pulseaudio and (contrary to previous experiences) this solved the problem rather than giving problems :).
Thanks a bunch Robert.
2009/10/20 Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@xxxxxxxxx>
Well, it's because that asound configuration bypasses dmix software mixing, so once an application has opened the audio device then no other app can. I believe it's possible to change the default output device with dmix, but I don't have the details on how to do this.On 10/19/2009 02:02 PM, Ubuntu Linuxy wrote:
Hey all, I'm new to this mailing list, searched through the archives
quickly and couldn't find anyone with the same problem as me so decided
to sign up :).
Anyhow here goes:
I got myself a HDTV for usage as monitor and for sound, it's connected
to my (nVidia GPU based) laptop (Fujitsu Siemens Xi 2528 should it be of
interest).
Basically I started by selecting to selecting the IEC958 and IEC958
Default PCM switches and managed to generate sound however the sound
kept breaking, like in the middle of a song the sound would just stop
and I'd have to restart whatever I was listening to (on occation
multiple times and not always getting it back).
After reading up on the article on digitalout at the unofficial wiki:
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/DigitalOut#Set_your_default I set my
default card to my digital output direcetly (0,1) and this resolved
these issues however a new one arised. Basically the applications
playing sounds lock the device meaning I can only ever have sound from
one source simultaniously, this in itself is pretty annoying. What is
more of an issue is the fact that I generally have to close these
applications (not only stop the sound from playing) to be able to have
another source play sound. For example if I have played a flash video
then I will have to close down my browser to listen to something
different. Not sure if it makes any difference or not but I am able to
listen to multiple sounds generated by the same application, for
instance the sounds of two flash videos will play simultaniously while a
flash video and a file opened in mplayer won't both be allowed to play.
Alternatively, if your distro has PulseAudio, you can just change the default output device and things should just work (and people say it has no benefits..?)
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Some more info
Distro: Arch Linux, 32-bit
I've posted config files and output from the "aplay -l" command here:
http://pastebin.com/m1b888e6b
If I'd be able to get some help resolving this I'd be most grateful.
Thanks in advance.
Xenio
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