Re: [Alsa-user] VT1708S: Problems when multiple apps try to use the sound device at the same time

[Sascha 's. M. <sam...@di...>]

Am Samstag 08 Mai 2010 14:07:19 wrote Christian Ruppert:
> Hey guys,
> 
> I have some issues with the "VIA VT1708S" codec of the hda-intel
> driver. As soon as one application opens the audio device it will
> block the whole device so I'm not able to use e.g. amarok and
> mplayer at the sime time.
> In some cases I have to restart/quit the application which is
> "blocking" the device to be able to use the sound device from
> another app.
> 
> I was using alsa-driver 1.0.21 and now trying 1.0.23 but its still
> the same...
> 
> I recently bought a new mainboard which includes this chipset and
> directly had these issues.
> My old board had an MCP55/nvidia codec which was fine, even with the
> same drivers version.
> The "AD1981" codec on my laptop works fine as well its just the
> "VT1708S" which makes trouble :(
> 
> I couldn't find a solution for my problem so I hope I can get one
> here. The alsa-info output (with 1.0.21, I didn't change my configs
> with 1.0.23) can be found here:
> http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=603e65fe624c01adca91ca865c618eac742
> 434c5
> 
> Analog, SPDIF and everything else works fine so far.. so just the
> blocking device...
> 
> In some cases it even crashed some apps when I was trying to play a
> video or so while another app was using the device already.
Are your Problem fixed?
-- 
Sincerely yours

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