Re: qemu/kvm seems to take ALSA all for itself?

[Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>]

David Abrahams wrote:
> Jon <iroquoi <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>   
>> I use:
>>
>> export QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=alsa
>> export QEMU_AUDIO_DAC_FIXED_FREQ=48000
>> export QEMU_AUDIO_ADC_FIXED_FREQ=48000
>> export QEMU_ALSA_DAC_BUFFER_SIZE=16384
>>
>> Buffer size is very important, else it crackles and pops for me.
>>     
>
> Unfortunately with my upgrade to Ubuntu Hardy this has stopped working; I can
> put off the effect by playing a test tone in linux, but Qemu again takes over
> the sound system completely the first time it succeeds in making noise.  Maybe
> this has something to do with the addition of *yet another* audio layer in Hardy
> (PulseAudio?)

What does your /etc/alsa/alsa.conf look like?  Also, please remove any 
user-local alsa configuration files you may have inherited from the 
previous installation.

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