From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932921Ab0CXUjL (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:39:11 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:48064 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932365Ab0CXUjJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:39:09 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:43:05 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: turbolad995@yahoo.co.uk Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Major Linux sound bugs Message-ID: <20100324204305.4613bde9@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <4BAA6405.968.842BC@turbolad995.yahoo.co.uk> References: <4BAA6405.968.842BC@turbolad995.yahoo.co.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4 (GTK+ 2.18.6; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:12:05 -0000 turbolad995@yahoo.co.uk wrote: > Hi. I don't know who to contact about this, but nobody seems to know > how to fix this problem or where/why it's occurring. Here's the > lowdown: in Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, some programs will > only work with sound when you close ALL other programs first. I've > mentioned this on Launchpad, but nobody seems to know why or how to > fix it. Sound arbitration is pretty much entirely done in user space. You need to talk to your distribution about it and how the software it uses is configured. Probably some of what is shipped is not configured to share nicely or you've added something which doesn't play nice. Alan