On Fri, 12.10.07 09:41, Marc MERLIN (marc_pulse at merlins.org) wrote: > Howdy, > > I have pulseaudio 0.9.5-5ubuntu4 with the esd socket symlink fix. > > When pulseaudio starts, it seems to take over alsa exclusively. > > With pulseaudio not running, mplayer gives me: > AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample > With pulseaudio running: > alsa-lib: pcm_hw.c:1242:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: > Device or resource busy > alsa-lib: pcm_dmix.c:864:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave > alsa-init: playback open error: Device or resource busy [..] > .ifexists /usr/lib/pulse-0.9/modules/module-hal-detect.so > load-module module-hal-detect > .else > module-alsa-sink is necesary, or not, but in either case, pulseaudio seems > to take exclusively over my alsa device. > Just for info, my current alsa config seems to have dmix on by default. > for i in 1 2 3; do alsaplayer file.mp3 & done > works fine, I get 3 audio streams. You have two options: 1. What I recommend: install the pa plugin for libasound, like people on the ML already suggested. 2. What I do not recommend: configure pa to pass your data through dmix. For doing that comment the module-hal-detect line in default.pa and instead add a "load-module module-alsa-sink" line. However, that takes away hotplug support, trashes your latencies and generally will speed of global warming! Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4