2010/2/22 Lennart Poettering <mznyfn@xxxxxxxxxxx> > On Sun, 21.02.10 11:49, Raymond Yau (superquad.vortex2@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > The most common onboard audio is HDA so this is not any exceptional cases > > > > Those HDA multi streaming feature are most users wanted in desktop > > enviornment, are pulseaudio really designed for deskop or just only for > > notebook and mobile ? > > > > The front panel green/pink jack can be used by one application while the > > rear panel audio jacks can be used to another application for surround or > > mic for karaoke > > I am not entirely convinced that this is really a common case. > > But anyway, there is nothing in PA that would limit it to not use > multiple parallel devices of a sound card at the same time, with the > exception that ALSA currently has no enumeration API which could > inform us which uses of the card are exclusive each other and which > ones are not. PA currently tries to open the sound card in all > combinations possible, assuming that EBUSY means it found an invalid > combination. if ( snd_pcm_info_get_subdevices_count(pcm_info) > 1 ) mean you can open the device more than one time since the device has more than 1 subdevice _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel