[arch-general] sound problem with chromium

[Neven Sajko]

Do you perhaps have any /etc/asound.conf or .asoundrc or similarly named
files messing up your sound config?

Additionally (another wild guess), try running aplay -l -L and report the
output.

On Thu, May 5, 2022, 16:00 Pascal via arch-general <
arch-general at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:

> 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.
> >>
> >
>