From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Subject: Re: Fedora system-config-soundcard generating broken configs? Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 18:31:57 -0400 Message-ID: <1147905119.10153.26.camel@mindpipe> References: <1147824929.13948.166.camel@mindpipe> <1147828876.15861.57.camel@cmn3.stanford.edu> <1147831242.13948.171.camel@mindpipe> <1147892754.23782.60.camel@cmn3.stanford.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1147892754.23782.60.camel@cmn3.stanford.edu> Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano Cc: alsa-devel List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 12:05 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 22:00 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 18:21 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > > > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 20:15 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > This is from a bug report from an FC5 user: > > > > > > > > ------- /etc/asound.conf -------- > > > > #Generated by system-config-soundcard, do not edit by hand > > > > #HWCONF > > > > #DEV 0 > > > > pcm.!default { type hw card 0 device 0 } > > > > ctl.!default { type hw card 0 } > > > > > > > > Wouldn't this cause the default PCM to be hw:0,0, and cause dmix, > > > > dsnoop, etc to be bypassed? > > > > > > Yup. > > > > > > On the control panel there is a button that actually says something like > > > "disable dmix and dsnoop" and if you click there that's what you get. I > > > just tried to be sure. If you uncheck it you get a normal (I hope) > > > asound.conf again. > > > > What's the default? > > AFAIK the box is not checked by default, ie: dmix and dsnoop and > enabled. > So if the box is not checked then /etc/alsa.conf is not created and it falls through to the definition in /usr/share/alsa/cards/$DRIVER.conf? > > And, shouldn't it have a better label than "disable dmix and dsnoop"? > > Like "Prevent multiple applications from accessing the sound device"? > > It actually says "Disable software mixing (dmix, dsnoop)". Sorry, it is > not the computer I'm using and I could not remember the exact text. It seems to me that this will disable a bunch of other things also (resampling, etc). Lee ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642