On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 22:47 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: > Hello, > > Since a few weeks I'm running pulseaudio on my machines and it works > nicely. I especially like the ability to send audio though the > network. > > However, I need to run a program (aeolus) which works with plain ALSA > but not with pulseaudio's ALSA emulation (It complains that "the > playback interface doesn't support mmap-based access"). I had set up > /etc/asound.conf to default to pulse as recommended. > > Now I wonder, is it possible to have some applications accessing the > native ALSA device while pulseaudio is running? I would have imagined > that something like this would work: > > ALSA_CARD=NVidia aeolus -A > > but it doesn't. I get the "mmap-based access" error. > > Also killing pulseaudio doesn't help, as it is restarted when a program > is trying to access ALSA. A solution would be to modify > /etc/asound.conf (or it's user-local equivalent), kill pulseaudio, and > then run the program, but this is very inconvenient. > > Any ideas? > > thanks, > Christoph > Basically, no, the sound-card cannot be shared that way. Perhaps if you use dmix, but apps which use mmap don't play well with that either I think.
