Amarok 2: resource or device busy?

Dâniel Fraga fragabr at gmail.com
Fri Jun 27 18:47:31 UTC 2008


On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:54:22 +0200
Beso <givemesugarr at gmail.com> wrote:

> amarok 1.4 was going directly with alsa or pulseaudio or another sound
> server. the problem is that phonon needs to be compiled to support the sound
> server that stands behing so that you can use phonon and another player at
> the same time.
> and as you think if you go directly with alsa also the 1.4 serie locks the
> audio device via xine-lib or helix engine. the fact that you had a sound
> server under this alsa layer is indicated by the fact that you were able to
> use more than one devices at the same time.

	thanks Beso. I use dmix from alsa to mix the sound, so amarok 1
works with xine without problems. Phonon also uses xine, but locks the
sound device.

	I'll try to recompile phonon properly. Thank you.


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