Re: [Alsa-user] xine: PCM in use ?

[Alec E. <al...@ed...>]

On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 12:46, Peter Kirk wrote:
> I did some more research :)
> 
> What I found: xine _allways_ gives the error, no matter what I started before 
> (even if I do reboot then xine).
> 
> Also, there is a very interesting thing xine gives:
> ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:598:(snd_pcm_hw_open) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_PVERSION failed: Not 
> matching IOCTL (I/O-Control) for the device
> 
> also:
> alsasound stop I get::
> Shutting down sound driver: ALSA lib seq_hw.c:451:(snd_seq_hw_open) 
> SNDRV_SEQ_IOCT
> ailed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> 
> 
> So, as I have no idea what ioctl stuff means, I would kindly ask for a tip on 
> this, as it seems to be the problem behing xine.
> 

Does it make any difference if you are root or a normal user? Can you
run alsamixer or amixer? I had problems with xine and alsa09 but found
they were due to not having permission to use the alsa stuff so I
changed the ownership of the alsa /dev files and it worked fine.

Alec
 
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Alec Edworthy
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