Repost to the list, accidentally postet to Nikos only. 2012/3/18 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@xxxxxxxxx>: > On 17/03/12 23:53, Florian Lindner wrote: >> >> My system is a Linux 3.2.11 (Archlinux) / KDE 4.8.1. >> >> The system used to work perfectly. Today I have installed a new >> soundcard (Asus Xonar Essence STX) in addition to my onboard >> soundcard. >>[...] >> It seems that only one application can use the sound device. KDE >> phonon fails if vlc is active, same for flashplayer (which stays just >> silent) > > I've hit this too. It seems dmix is only used for the first card. The > way I solved this is to compile a kernel with the driver for my PCI card > built-in, and the other drivers compiled as modules. Then dmix is used > for my PCI card. Has a developer ever commented on that? If that is the cause of it, it seems to be clearly a bug with alsa. > But if you don't need the other sound devices and have everything > compiled as modules, then you can simply blacklist those modules. Well, I have blacklisted the module for my onboard sound: florian@horus ~ % cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [STX ]: AV200 - Xonar STX Asus Virtuoso 100 at 0xde00, irq 19 but yet, no change, any application is still blocking it for other applicaitons. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user