Dear gentoo-ists: I have an envy24 [ice1712] audio card under ALSA
under gentoo amd64. for the most part, it is working. but
occasionally I get panels like "failed to open audio output ALSA 1.2.10
output plugin". there is no relevant message in /var/log/messages when
this happens. after a while, it works again. (I can also switch to
arts, and this will work for a while, until the same thing happens.)

I wonder if this is some sort of race condition, where something else
wants to grab the audio device. how do I track what is happening?

sincerely,

/iaw

ivowel@gmail.com wrote:
> Dear gentoo-ists: I have an envy24 [ice1712] audio card under ALSA
> under gentoo amd64. for the most part, it is working. but
> occasionally I get panels like "failed to open audio output ALSA 1.2.10
> output plugin". there is no relevant message in /var/log/messages when
> this happens. after a while, it works again. (I can also switch to
> arts, and this will work for a while, until the same thing happens.)

dmix may be the answer.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t...-xmmsalsa.html