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1) Use sound card with hardware mixing |
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2) Run sound mixing daemon like esound or arts |
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3) Set up dmix in alsa. I also heard that alsa 1.10 is supposed to |
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come with replacement for dmix ? |
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3) is preferable to 2), especially arts seems having a lot of bad rap. |
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I have recompiled everything without arts (I don't have gnome or esound |
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I don't know much about 'jack' |
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> I am running a 2.6.14 kernel: |
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> uname -a |
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> Linux lurch 2.6.14-gentoo #1 PREEMPT Mon Oct 31 01:06:31 PST 2005 x86_64 |
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> AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux |
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> using the 2005.0 profile and ~amd64<F4> ARCH on a Shuttle SN85G4. |
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> In general a single sound application, xmms, mplayer, torcs, works. The |
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> problem is that the browser, galeon and others, often open /dev/sound/dsp. |
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> Then when I try to run a second application that also uses sound, the |
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> second application fails when it tries to open /dev/sound/dsp. |
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> Does anyone have recommendations that I could follow to more easily get |
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> multiple applications to work together? |
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> I just want to be able to start a browser, xmms, and then run a few laps |
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> with Torcs. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Steve Herber herber@×××××.com work: 206-221-7262 |
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> Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399 |
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Associate Professor University of Alberta |
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tel 1-780-492-2150 412 Avadh Bhatia Physics Labs |
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