[alsa-devel] ALSA Driver 1.0.22.1

[Daniel Chen]

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Darsen Lu <darsenlu at gmail.com> wrote:
> After that I started noticing conflicts between different sound-playback
> applications.
> For example, if I watch a Flash video on Firefox, stop it, and then start
> playing an MP3 file on Totem (a Media Player), I don't hear any sound.
> Once I close Firefox the music from Totem starts coming out.
> This never happened before on my Linux system. I'd be very grateful if
> someone could give me advices!

This symptom is very improbably related to your upgrading of the
driver. Instead, it's a userspace issue. Use "sudo fuser -v /dev/dsp*
/dev/snd/* /dev/seq*" when you're experiencing the symptom to start
troubleshooting.

Best,
-Dan