alsa sound problem...
 

Hello!

I'm using Mandrake 9.0 with alsa and a Yamha AC97 soundcard. (module: i810_audio). It works fine exept that only one program can use the sound at the same time. I can not play mp3 and use xine at the same time, I can not play games and mp3 at the same time etc.....

Anyone how know how to solve the problem???
Thanks!

You need to use a soundserver like arts (if you're using KDE). And then use the appropriate plugins.

Or buy a soundcard which allows to open the sound device more than once.

okey... I'm using IceWM.... installed arts, but I can't get it to work... xmms and xine hangs..... From xine I got the following message:
can't connect to arts server.
(I have arts output plugins for both xmms and xine)

Is it possible to get arts to work in IceWM??? Do I need to configure arts in some way???

Thanks!

hmmm.... I have something named soundwarpper installed to... licq seems to use this to play sound.... anyone know what it is???

did you start arts server ???

look for "artsd" file then when you will find it type:

artsd &&

this is how you start it ...
then if you want to play a few sounds at the same time so you need to turn them on by:

artsdsp whateverProgram

example:

artsdsp xmms

good luck