Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

From: Tomasz Kłoczko
Date: Mon Jun 25 2007 - 10:02:21 EST


On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Renato S. Yamane wrote:

Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
ALSA still does not provides good soud devices virtualization for more then one application. Each day I'm using bludy words when I'm try to use skype which oppens /dev/mixer after run galeon with flash plugin which opens /dev/snd/pcm* or when I start GNOME session with soud enabled (handled by esd whuich uses ALSA).


Install alsa-oss fix this problem?
<http://www.skype.com/help/guides/soundsetup_linux.html>

No. Read above again and you will see I'm taking about using OSS emulation on top ALSA. It does not work with above scenario.

# lsmod | grep snd
snd_emu10k1_synth 11073 0
snd_emux_synth 35681 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi 11336 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_emul 10049 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_emu10k1 131121 2 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_intel8x0 36837 5
snd_seq_dummy 7877 0
snd_ac97_codec 98941 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_intel8x0
snd_seq_oss 34257 0
snd_mpu401 12521 0
snd_mpu401_uart 12633 1 snd_mpu401
snd_seq_midi_event 11337 2 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss
snd_rawmidi 27233 3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq 52377 8 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
ac97_bus 6721 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_device 12245 7 snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 44129 0
snd_mixer_oss 19785 4 snd_pcm_oss
snd_util_mem 8904 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_pcm 76653 5 snd_emu10k1,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_hwdep 13133 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_timer 25565 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 55301 21 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_mpu401,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_timer
soundcore 11809 4 snd
snd_page_alloc 13897 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

kloczek
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