On Monday 09 April 2007 2:31:44 pm Ric Moore wrote: > On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 16:31 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > > > The log file says > > > > "aplay: main:545: audio open error: Device or resource busy". > > > > > > If anything is hogging it, it's likely to be aRts. In kcontrol > Sound > > > & Multimedia > Sound System make sure that 'Auto-suspend if idle > > > after:' is set to 1 second. > > > > Great minds think alike - I had done exactly this, > > without any effect that I could see. > > We went through this some time ago and I don't have the original thread. > But there was way to edit .asoundrc in your home directory to use > "dmix". Worked like a charm. I could play many apps all at one and all > were mixed into one audio stream perfectly. Now an upgrade has wrecked > that setting, I believe, and I'm looking all over for that email. My > bad, as I have a pile of email folders where I cache the good stuff. Ric > Ric, Is this the information you're looking for? http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Allow_multiple_programs_to_play_sound_at_once Ron
