Alsa (concurrently sound at same time)

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Hi:

I have a Asus A7v 333 with a integrated sound card CMI 8738.
i am probed by many configurations in .asoundrc file but i can't play concurrently sounds at same time.

if a have xmms i can't play another sound with aplay or gaim, etc.

My Kernel is 2.6.1-1.61

# My /etc/modprobe
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-cmipci

# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-cmipci

#--- OSS compatibility alias
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

help please :(

Thanks

[vorte[x]]

This could be a ALSA sound module limitation. You may want to try ripping out ALSA and switching to OSS, for testing purposes, or just bite the bullet.

Informative Links:
ALSA Via82xx module info: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?module=via82xx

[feenixx]

You may find this article at fedoranews.org interesting

http://fedoranews.org/contributors/andre_costa/alsa/

more info on alsa page
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/asoundrc.php3


if you have several soundcards, look /proc/asound/cards for correct one
in pcm "hw:0,0" line.

[foolish]

I wrote a very newbie-targeting guide for installing alsa

http://foolish.digitalinc.info/docs/alsa/

[feenixx]

I wrote a very newbie-targeting guide for installing alsa

http://foolish.digitalinc.info/docs/alsa/


that's very neat guide foolish :)

btw. in 2.6 kernels,, you don't need to have alsa-driver package installed if have
built it as kenel module(s). BUT you need to run MAKEDEV.snd which is found from
/usr/src/*kernel source here*/scripts/ to make it work.

script doesn't seem to be run automatically after kernel installation..