Onboard sound problem

docwily · 01-29-2005, 05:09 PM

Well my sound is actually working fine ...but.... i want to be able to run say, XMMS and play games e.g. Quake 3 at the same time,,,, at the moment if i have xmms playing, quake 3 fails to start (cant get access the soundcard) sO......... anyone know how yo resolve this..???

---Slackware 10.0---
- AthlonXP 2600+ TB @ 2.4GHZ 400FSB w/Thermaltake Volcano 11
-Abit NF7-S nforce2
-150GB HDD
-GeForce4 Ti 4200 128M
-512M Corsair XMS

acid_kewpie · 01-29-2005, 05:18 PM

if you're using alsa, you need to use the dmix filter. google for "dmix alsa" and you'll get some decent results. also try the same query on lq too.

you may well also be able to tell both aplications to run sound through arts on kde, but this is a much higher level solution, which isn't really as nice and fundamentally "solved"