xanas3712
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Joined: 15 Oct 2004
Posts: 455
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 Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:17 am Post subject: platronics usb headset - can't play multiple sound streams |
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As above, for some reason I can't play more than one sound at a time. This works fine in windows, and I thought it was working at one time but I'm not sure what could have changed. I confirmed it still works in windows. I have disabled the internal sound card on this system in the bios since it's never used, so there is anything else here.
I have no .asoundrc and I never needed one on my other system to play multiple sounds so I don't think that is it. The /etc/modules.d/alsa file is
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## /etc/modules.d/alsa
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-usb-audio
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
# OSS/Free portion - card #1
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
## OSS/Free portion - card #2
#alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
#alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
#alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
# Set this to the correct number of cards.
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EDIT: from searching around it seems like dmix may be the problem, it may not be working, but I have no idea how it could be broken or how it would have become broken...
I can't find anything yet on this...
EDIT2: using dmix manually in programs seems to work.. but why in hell aren't they doing this already when it's supposed to be the default. I have no .asoundrc or /etc/asound.conf file.. what a pain
EDIT3: I tried fixing this with several .asoundrc files that used dmix but they didn't work at all, the funny thing is the simplest little one that I made works fine..
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmix"
}
I can't mark this solved though since I don't know why it's not defaulting to dmix like it's supposed to, until I know this I'm still seeking information on why this happened in the first place.. |
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