[ltp] flash plugin (netscape/mozilla), alsa and snd-card-cs461x

[Stephen Patterson]

On 13 Apr 02, D. Sen (dsen@ieee.org) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using ALSA (0.5.12a driver, 0.5.10b libarary, 0.5.10 utilities) on 
> my IBM Thinkpad T21 (using the snd-card-cs461x drivers). A problem 
> occurs when I am runing an audio application (like xmms or realplayer) 
> and concurrently try to open an URL with flash content on my web browser 
> (either netscape or mozilla). The browser hangs requiring a kill and a 
> restart.
> 
> Has anyone else encountered this problem and know a work around for it? 
> Will the ALSA development release solve the problem?

I think the real problem here isn't in the ALSA or OSS drivers, but rather
having 1 application (xmms, realplayer etc) holding the sound card open, and
netscape (like most applications) waiting for the other process to
relinquish the sound card. You can get round this by using esd[1], a software
mixer daemon which combines sound inputs from multiple applications into a
single output stream, which is sent to the sound card.

[1] ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/esound/

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