[ale] Is Sound in Linux Single-Threaded?

[jdonline at gmail.com (J. D.)]

Hi Marc,

In my experience it can be dependent on the driver/config. I think
there is also a setting for this inside the kde system settings in
(unless I am mistaken)

Also I believe I have had the acroread flash player exclusively pwn
the audio but is was awhile back.

Best regards,

J. D.



On 6/21/08, Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Based on my observation it seems that the sound for my linux box is
> single threaded.  If one device uses sound, it seems to lock it and if
> another application tries to use it, it is pretty much unsuccessful.  Is
> this true or do I not have the right drivers installed.  Here's my
> setup:
>
> Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
> Model: SBx00 Azalia
> Module: snd-hda-intel
>
> PCM Device: ALC883 Analog
>
> ALSA Driver version: Driver Version 1.0.16rc2
> ALSA Lib package(s): alsa-lib-1.0.16-3.fc8
> ALSA Utils package(s): alsa-utils-1.0.16-3.fc8
>
> I'm running Fedora 8.  Thanks for the clarification.
>