[Ekiga-list] simultaneous alsa access to sound card

[yannick]

Le samedi 09 décembre 2006 à 01:17 +0100, Sven Nielsen a écrit :
> hi,
> 
> after fiddling around a bit with alsa setup on my system (debian 
> testing) I could not get ekiga to access sound output while another 
> sound application is also running.
> 

Hi,
This may help you:
http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Getting_several_applications_using_the_sound_card_at_the_same_time_%3F

Regards,
Yannick

> A few minutes ago I started up ffplay, mplayer, and amarok (using arts > 
> alsa ), all playing simultaneously through alsa without problem, so I 
> assume my sound card is capable of hardware mixing the sound streams 
> (integrated AC97 Audio on nvidia2 controller board).
> 
> I have also tried setting up dmix configuration in /etc/alsa/asound.conf 
> (and /etc/asound.conf, forgot which one was the right directory), as 
> follows:
> 
>  > cat /etc/alsa/asound.conf
> 
> pcm.dsp0 {
>     type plug
>     slave.pcm "dmix"
> }
> 
> ctl.mixer0 {
>     type hw
>     card 0
> }
> 
> So, why is it that ekiga reports:
> 
> "Could not open audio channel for audio transmission"
> 
> when a call comes in while I listen to some music?
> 
> I am running asterisk on my home server (with a hard phone connected 
> over hfc-s isdn card), and I would really like to take calls at my 
> desktop PC so I won´t have to walk over to my other phone anymore.
> 
> Any help appreciated,
> 
> Thanks,
> Sven Nielsen
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