Alsa and Kernle sound working together ?

gillesg · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Sep 2002 Posts: 90

Is it possible to have the 2 sounds systems:
- ALSA
- Kernel

activated and working at the same time.

Gilles

Jimboberella · Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2002 7:27 am Post subject:

I dont think its possible if there is only one sound card. The modules will compile but only the first to load will run sound. So you could use ALSA for one thing then unload the modules and loaad the kernel ones for anothe program, but not at the same time.

azambuja · Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2002 8:37 pm Post subject:

hello,

i think you ARE able to have both of them working... did you check out the desktop guide?

cheers
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pilla · Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2002 11:22 pm Post subject:

Not at the same time, I think. You'd have conflicts when accessing the audio card. Unless I am missing some very interesting point in the design of sound drivers...

azambuja · Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2002 12:35 am Post subject:

im not sure about this...
but i remember that i had both modules loaded at boot time...
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Cloim · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Aug 2002 Posts: 99

I started out using kernel sound, then switched to ALSA. I still haven't removed the line in the config file that loads the kernel module.
As such, I can report that, on my machine, only the first module loads. The second one results in an error message.