Bug 161132

Summary:	Wish: shared soundcard configuration
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Andrea Santilli <sacntct>
Component:	system-config-soundcard	Assignee:	Martin Stransky <stransky>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4	Keywords:	FutureFeature
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Enhancement
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2005-12-29 14:26:38 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Andrea Santilli 2005-06-20 18:36:04 UTC

Description of problem:
Hello,
I thought it would be cool to have system-config-soundcard automatically
configure non-serial soundcards as shared, so they can't be kept busy by
processes. ALSA already allows this but there are still no configurators that
use this feature.

Comment 1 Andrea Santilli 2005-06-20 18:37:52 UTC

ooops I meant serial

Comment 2 Martin Stransky 2005-12-23 09:27:26 UTC

Could you be more concrete? I don't know what you exactly mean with shared
configuration...and is there any serial sound cards?

Comment 3 Andrea Santilli 2005-12-23 11:13:52 UTC

I mean there are some soundcards that don't allow to be used by more than one
processes at a time (for example when artsd is running, other non-kde processes
cant use the soundcard) but alsa still can do that at software level as shown in
this url:
http://alsa.opensrc.org/AlsaSharing

It would be nice to have a configuration wizard that, among other options,
allows to do such a thing very easily

Comment 4 Martin Stransky 2005-12-23 13:12:28 UTC

If you mean dmix it's enabled as a default in FC4... (if you use the "default"
ALSA device, not hw or plughw device)