[ltp] alsa sound on T40

[Luke Yelavich]

At 06:49 PM 2/03/2004, Roman Joost wrote:
>One problem which disturbs me is my sound. I use the alsa drivers
>provided by the 2.6.3 kernel and the sound works well, with one
>exception: i can only play sound with one application. That means, that
>eg.  my mplayer uses the sound device and all other players can't play
>sound.
>
>Maybe I missed something to pass parameters to the alsa module (intel
>8X0, afaik). I don't use arts daemon or something else. I looked at the
>alsa-project page but can't find anything related.
>
>Does someone know a solution for this problem?

Search through the ALSA documentation, and the ALSA Wiki for the dmix 
plugin. This should do what you want. You will have to write a .asoundrc or 
place create an /etc/asound.conf file, which does the same thing.

Luke