paulo wrote:
> Hi,
> back to an old problem.
>
> Sometimes, when I reboot my system, I get a strange behavior out of alsa.
> It wont play anything unless I specify the device, as in mplayer -ao
> alsa:noblock:device=hw=1.0.
Are you certain that it is ALSA. It could be that Phonon is the problem
if it is only KDE applications that are causing issues.
> This works, but if amarok is running, that file will be locked. So, I
> have to close amarok to play anything else.
> Restarting alsasound won't do any good.
>
> I read somewere that if you use pulseaudio or jack, you can have
> multiple apps using your soundcard, since amarok will "lock" the device
> at the sound server level, and not at the hardware level.
> Yet, neither sound server works on my system. I allways get a "Device
> foo dosen't work. Falling back to Intel bar analog."
>
> Any ideas how to get this working?
>
Jack needs to be configured for it to work, not simple, read the
documentation or install a GUI front-end for it.
PulseAudio requires that users be a member of the "pulse-access" group
to access it.
--
James Tyrer
Linux (mostly) From Scratch
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