phonon, alsa and softvol

[tomboy]

Actually I don't really know whether this is a problem of phonon but nevertheless - maybe I can get some pointers wherelse to look...

Thing goes as follows:
I'm using a M-Audio 24/96 soundcard which I control with envy24control. Secondly I created a sovtvol device, due to the cards 'sophisticated' controls and in principle it works as descibed in the alsa wiki. Meaning with kmix I can access the Master and control the volume.
However, what doesn't work - anymore, since the sofvol creation - is playback from several sources. For example I'm watching some video with xine, pause the playback and trying to watch a video on youtube (with opera). Same problem when I have been watching a video on youtube and from another website play a mp3 which excecutes amarok (Amarok says sound device not working).
Long story short I can only playback audio from a single source if no other audio software is active. If so I have to close all instances and reopen the one I'm intending to use.

If anyone have any ideas...?
Thanks in advance!

my .asoundrc:

pcm.!default {
  type       plug
  slave.pcm    "softvol"
}

pcm.softvol {
  type      softvol
  slave {
    pcm     "front"
  }
  control {
    name    "Master"
    card    0
  }
}

[Ole Juul]

Re: phonon, alsa and softvol

I can't help you specifically, but I had a problem like that and this page solved it: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnableSoftwareMixing I used that asound.conf and then everything worked. I've got another (perhaps similar) problem now - but that's another story.