hey all,
well actually i have a kind of problem with my sound, the fact is:
i can hear the music normally, my sound card works perfectly. althought it makes me an error: i cannot play two different sounds comming from two different devices
e.g : i'm talking on skype with a friend and i cannot play some music in background without that xmms says me the following thing:

i've already done:

but nothing changed.
i'd like a clear answer for my problem please because i'd like to fix this problem as soon as possible
thanks for answering.

cya all


PS: i'm running a Slackware 10.1 (if that could help)

Are you using dmix? or amix? You should have a mixer deamon running, or you'll only be able to use one. The other solution is to buy a creative audigy soiund card that supports hardware mixing.

i don't know how to do it.... please be clear in order to help me THANKS!.... that's the second time i post and nobody answers me correctly.

thanks, cya all.

Try configuring your apps to use alsa.

sorry but i'm a noob, can you explain a little bit more what does mean :
thanks for expliciting.

cya

I would check into the gentoo alsa howto:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml

Does anybody have a guide on what actually happens with dmix. I have tried a lot but it doesn't work. I went to the gentoo wiki which is great but it has only similar stuff. Also everything just says this is how it should work but not what the code does (as in why you do things the way they do)

So first they tell me to run alsaplayer a couple of times with dmix in the command line. Which works good for me. Then it says now write the asoundrc file. So I do it taking the smallest possible. Then it says test with mpg123. First of all when I normally run mpg123 it just plays whole mp3s in 3 seconds so way too fast. But after I write asoundrc it doesn't work anymore giving an error on mess in the mp3 file. It says I can hear when dmix is used, well I don't (probably cause it doesn't work )

This is my asoundrc file which according to a lot of different sites should work with via82xx alsa module. (VIA AC97 sound)

i glanced to the gentoo alsa howto and it doesn't fit to slackware, well, that's what i think. in anycase, thanks alot.
but still, does someone have another idea or solution?

thanks.

Yep you've got to know what you can use and what's gentoo specific. But no worries there's documentation on the official alsa site

http://www.alsa-project.org/

almost all howto are not gentoo specific, totally works cross-distro.