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From: Jakob Buchgraber <jakob.buchgraber@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [ALSA] Can't use FF and Amarok together as sound driver fails
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:35:32
Message-Id: 45B12A61.70709@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [ALSA] Can't use FF and Amarok together as sound driver fails by Mauro Faccenda
1 Mauro Faccenda wrote:
2 > On Friday 19 January 2007 17:33, b.n. wrote:
3 >
4 >> Jakob Buchgraber ha scritto:
5 >>
6 >>> Hey!
7 >>>
8 >>> When I watch some videos on youtube and after that want to watch a move
9 >>> wie kaffeine or listen to some music using amarok. I always get the
10 >>> error message that xine was unable to initialize any sound drivers. So
11 >>> this means that I can't use 2 applications using sound.
12 >>>
13 >>> Why is that? Did you experience similar problems and know how to fix
14 >>> this?
15 >>>
16 >> I'm experiencing the reverse annoyance. That is, most apps will play
17 >> without a hitch, but if I try to get sound from FF *after* I've opened
18 >> amarok or xine etc. FF will give me only silence.
19 >>
20 >
21 > edit: /usr/bin/firefox
22 >
23 > and add "aoss" after exec in the last line.
24 >
25 > like this:
26 > exec aoss /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher "$@"
27 >
28 > []'s
29 > .m
30 >
31 Ok that helped! I first had to emerge alsa-oss and then to edit
32 /usr/bin/firefox.
33 Gentoo is not only the best linux it also has a great community! Thanks
34 a lot.
35
36 Best Regards Jay
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