On 05/09/2010 05:06 PM, Paul Menzel wrote: >> I have some issues with the "VIA VT1708S" codec of the hda-intel driver. >> As soon as one application opens the audio device it will block the >> whole device so I'm not able to use e.g. amarok and mplayer at the sime >> time. > > I thought that is the normal behavior unless you use a sound server like > for example PulseAudio. > > Did it ever work for you? > I'm sure it did and it still does on my notebook... just a different codec. I never had such problems since dmix has been enabled by default. On my notebook and even with my old nvidia codec I was able to start several mplayer sessions at once and had no issues at all. -- Regards, Christian Ruppert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user