[arch-general] sound problem with chromium

Pascal patatetom at gmail.com
Thu May 5 13:59:11 UTC 2022


I checked in my session the concurrent accesses with fuser -v /dev/snd/*
and killed the only one that was present and could interfere (volumeicon *that
was also present with Firefox and Mplayer*).

Le jeu. 5 mai 2022 à 15:50, Pascal <patatetom at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Alsa directly : no PA or PW.
>
> when i run Chromium from a terminal, i get these two error messages about
> Alsa but they also appear when the sound is working :
> [4765:4765:0504/164956.649650:ERROR:alsa_util.cc(204)] PcmOpen:
> default,Device or resource busy
> [4765:4765:0504/164956.649811:ERROR:alsa_util.cc(204)] PcmOpen:
> plug:default,Device or resource busy
>
> Le jeu. 5 mai 2022 à 15:46, Jesse Jaara via arch-general <
> arch-general at lists.archlinux.org> a écrit :
>
>> Are you using Alsa directly, no pulseaudio or pipewire? Something could be
>> wonky with your dmix config and it's getting disabled, thus only a single
>> application can have access to the sound playback at once.
>>
>


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