There is an issue with 'dmix' when using rpi3 soundcard that make impossible to mix sound. Furthermore, it is impossible to use 4a-softmixer for this soundcard.

Instruction to reproduce the issue (trying to use dmix with rpi3 soundcard) :

• Replace your board's '/etc/asound.rc' file by the attached 'asound.rc' file.

• Run an 'aplay -l | grep -i bcm2835' to get rpi3 soundcard alsa device id (a number between 0 and 31).

• Modify the freshly replaced '/etc/asound.rc' to replace the '1' in the line 'slave {pcm "hw:1"}' (l. 10) by rpi3 soundcard alsa device id.

• Copy attached 'tone-440-stereo-48000-16bits.wav' sound file to you board '/home/0' directory.

• Open two terminals on your platform :

• In the first one, run : aplay -D Emergency_Main /home/0/tone-440-stereo-48000-16bits.wav

• In the second one, run : aplay -D Warning_Main /home/0/tone-440-stereo-48000-16bits.wav

On the second terminal, an error will be returned :

ALSA lib ../../../alsa-lib-1.1.6/src/pcm/pcm_dmix.c:1156:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
aplay: main:828: audio open error: Invalid argument

In attached files, you can find outputs of the error using rpi3 soundcard and the expected behaviour using a csl-cm106 soundcard.