Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [Alsa-user] dmix not working with intel8x0 (ICH4)

[Morten N. <mo...@ni...>]

Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Wed, 21 Sep 2005 03:05:59 -0400,
> Lee Revell wrote:
> 
>>This is a bit over my head, someone on alsa-devel can probably answer.
>>
>>You can't easily "fix it" - softvol and dmix are incompatible so
>>ICH4.conf is incorrect.  You have to use one or the other for now.
>>
>>Lee
>>
>>On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 08:46 +0200, Morten Nilsen wrote:
>>
>>>Lee Revell wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 16:44 +0200, Morten Nilsen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>mortenn@onihime ~$ xmms
>>>>>Message: device: default
>>>>>ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:777:(snd_pcm_direct_initialize_slave) unable to 
>>>>>install hw params
> 
> 
> This is usually either a wrong dmix set up, the permission problem, or
> the conflict of device opens with OSS apps.

like written in other mail, error disappears when replacing ICH4.conf by 
  VIA686A.conf (which suggests "a wrong dmix set up") but came back when 
starting a second xmms (suggesting dmix doesn't work) - and, yes, xmms 
used its alsa output plugin

-- 
Morten