From: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
To: turbolad995@yahoo.co.uk
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Major Linux sound bugs
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:51:24 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BAAB38C.3070202@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BAA6405.968.842BC@turbolad995.yahoo.co.uk>
On 03/24/2010 01:12 PM, turbolad995@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> Hi. I don't know who to contact about this, but nobody seems to know
> how to fix this problem or where/why it's occurring. Here's the
> lowdown: in Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, some programs will
> only work with sound when you close ALL other programs first. I've
> mentioned this on Launchpad, but nobody seems to know why or how to
> fix it.
>
> Thank you for reading.
This isn't a kernel issue. Usually this is due to those programs
incorrectly accessing device-specific ALSA devices like "hw:0", etc.
rather than just using the "default" PCM device. Doing this bypasses
software mixing and requires exclusive access to the sound device.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-25 0:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-24 19:12 Major Linux sound bugs turbolad995
2010-03-24 19:23 ` Uwaysi Bin Kareem
2010-03-24 20:43 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-25 0:51 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
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