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>I belive you can open the device as non blocking, but If the app that already
>has it open hasn't been fixed... I know KDE's snd engine opens in non
>blocking mode. Same thing happens with the OSS drivers. If you can figure out
>what program has it open you should tell the makers of it to fix it.
AFAIK two programs can never use the same pcm device at the same time,
so I would not understand how this non-blocking opening should work,
except in the case ALSA implements a mixer which mixes the different
incoming sound streams, which not the case AFAIK.