Sound card...

elmetald00d · 03-28-2002, 05:28 PM

I just installed MDK 8.2 a couple of days ago, and my sound is working but not 100% as it should...I am listening to music on XMMS and I receive a msg, when my song ends, i get a device is busy error on XMMS and my msg plays like 5 minutes later... I need the stuff to be like mixed... It used to work on Windoze (sorry for the reference)...
Need help....

laTEZ

nikhiljosh · 03-28-2002, 07:56 PM

what is ur msg ?
is it mp3 file or something ?
plz elaborate

elmetald00d · 03-28-2002, 08:08 PM

Ok, like this, Im playing music on xmms, and like when the song ends, my aim msg plays and xmms cant advance to the next song because it says the device is in use....

nikhiljosh · 03-28-2002, 08:20 PM

ok
aim is using ur soundcard and so xmms can't use it

there is a util which can overcome this problem
u can play multiple mp3 files too!!

heck but i don't seem to remember the name

Moderator can u help plz

elmetald00d · 03-28-2002, 09:19 PM

I KNOW!!! on windows its called a MIXER!!! linux has it but it doesnt actually mix the sound.... on windoze (sorry!!!) i can like be listening to music, playing a video, and receiving ims (referring to the sound) and i can hgear them all, thats what i want on my mandy here....

JimmyD · 03-28-2002, 09:25 PM

What you want to look into is something like esound if you use gnome and I can't remember what the kde version is. Essentially it overcomes the limitation of the way linux sound is designed. Linux can only play sounds comming from one source. A sound daemon such as esound (enlightenment sound daemon) allows the programs to send audio output to it and then it sends it to the dsp device.

elmetald00d · 03-28-2002, 11:14 PM

ill look into that... if u rememvber the kde version name, leave the name here...