Hi,
On Di, Dez 02, 2008 at 11:13:37 +1100, Jason White wrote:
On my Debian systems, which use Alsa only (no Pulse Audio daemon), I notice
that when multiple Alsa applications are active simultaneously, the sound is
mixed properly. However, if I run an application that uses OSS while an Alsa
application is writing to the audio output, the OSS application receives a
"device or resource busy" error.
What about running the oss application through aoss wrapper?
apt-get install -q alsa-oss
aoss mp3blaster
My solution to this is to avoid OSS applications. They're mostly legacy
programs that haven't been updated for years, and for which newer alternatives
exist that take advantage of Alsa. It helps that I don't run proprietary
speech synthesis engines, some of which use OSS.
Ok I am doing the same here but some times we don't have
newer versions of these apps wich are alsa capable!
There is supposed to be a solution to the OSS/Alsa audio mixing problem that
can be implemented in your ~/.asoundrc file, but I haven't been able to get it
to work. Neither have I devoted much effort to it, however.
The easiest way is to use aoss wrapper (not for speechsynthesis!!).
Another solution is to set LD_PRELOAD variable in your ~/.profile
or ~/.bashrc. Look at the aoss skript!.
This should work for all apps.
Regards
Halim
