Re: GUS driver status : multiple open of /dev/dsp ?

["Ville Syrjälä" <syrjala@sci.fi>]

On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 09:20:31PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> >The problem with GUS synth is that it uses non-interleaved data layout so
> >it's not relly useful for pcm stuff. alsa-lib doesn't want to do
> >the required conversion for some reason.
> 
> i find this very suprising and somewhat hard to believe. the
> hammerfall also uses a non-interleaved data layout (as all the best
> cards do :), and yet despite the fact that the driver contains no code
> to handle an interleaved stream, aplay via plughw:N,0 works just
> fine i.e. alsa-lib handles the conversion perfectly. what makes you
> think it doesn't work?

# aplay -D plughw:0,1 stereo.wav
aplay: set_params:754: Access type not available

There is a snd_pcm_plug_change_access() function in pcm_plug.c so I'm
thinking it should work, but it doesn't.

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Ville Syrjälä
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