Re: Alsa, Kernel OSS

[Takashi Iwai]

At Sat, 1 Mar 2003 23:17:46 +0100,
Marc Giger wrote:
> 
> Hi Jaroslav, Hi everyone,
> 
> I have the following problem with Kernel 2.4.20 and the alsa
> 0.9.0_rc6 / rc7 drivers: 
> 
> When I try to load the snd-intel8x0 driver I get the message that no
> such device is installed. But when I first load the kernel i810_audio
> driver and then unload it again, I can load the snd-intel8x0 without
> any problems.... 

this might be due to the detection of modem codec.
if so, this was fixed on the ALSA cvs.  please try ALSA cvs version or
wait for the next ALSA patchset...

> This happened not with 2.4.19 and alsa < 0.9.0_rc6..
> 
> Another question:
> 
> Why can't I play more than one sources on the same time with such a
> card? All programs which would access /dev/dsp blocks until the other
> programs frees the device... It isn't very useful. 
> 
> I have no such problems with multiple sources as example on my
> SBLive or on my yamaha sound card with the snd-ymfpci driver. 
> 
> Do I miss some settings?

no, it's the hardware limitation.

Takashi