Amarok2 and Phonon locks sound card
Kernel
kernelonline at gmail.com
Sun Nov 30 14:40:07 UTC 2008
Hi everyone!
I am amarok 1.x user.
Recently i have tried amarok2 and found some weird problem. Amarok (or Phonon
backend) exclusively locks my alsa sound card. Amarok doesn't unlock card
after stopping playing (pressing stop button). Card unlocks only after
closing Amarok.
My other software (configured with alsa output) won't able to output anything
('device is busy' error occurs).
And i have question: it is possible to compile amarok2 without Phonon backend
(like disabling aRts in KDE 3.x programs at building time)? Or it is Phonon
problem?
I have usb sound card (snd-usb-audio module) (primary audio output) and AC97
onboard audio chip (disabled most of time) (snd_intel8x0 module). Both
without hardware mixer.
PS: Without phonon all my alsa-compatible software (mostly players: xine-lib,
mplayer and etc works just fine and simultaneously).
My /etc/asound.conf (for 4.0 output with usb card, dmix plugin used for
software mixing):
pcm.dmix0 {
type dmix
ipc_key 673138
slave {
pcm "hw:0,0"
rate 96000
#format "S24"
channels 4
period_time 80000
buffer_time 320000
period_size 4096
buffer_size 16384
}
bindings {
0 0
1 1
2 2
3 3
}
}
pcm.ch40dup {
type route
slave.pcm dmix0
slave.channels 4
ttable.0.0 1
ttable.1.1 1
ttable.0.2 1
ttable.1.3 1
}
# 'dsp0' is espected by OSS emulation etc.
pcm.dsp0 {
type plug
slave.pcm "ch40dup"
}
ctl.dsp0 {
type hw
card 0
}
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "ch40dup"
}
ctl.!default {
type hw
card 0
}
PSS: Sorry about my bad english.
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