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Hello boys and girls.
If I want to run 2 programs (Lets say: A game and Amarok) It seems like the system is streaming (I mean, I hear) only one of the programs that running on. It means I cannot play games like ET and listen to the music.
I'm using Ubuntu btw.
Hopefully get helped here, again.
Thanks in advance.
Distribution: Mandriva 2009 X86_64 suse 11.3 X86_64 Centos X86_64 Debian X86_64 Linux MInt 86_64 OS X
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When you,re using the programs you mentioned what is you,re processor load ?
And how much RAM is used ?
If the load is to heavy than those things might happens
If I am updating for instance than already the system works slower,even may processor is dual core
and I use 2 GB RAM
all the best
Last edited by ronlau9; 07-06-2008 at 04:04 AM.
Reason: add information
Normally only one program at a time can use the soundcard.
That is why sound-daemons are used. These access the sound-card and mix input from different applications together.
jack, arts, esd and pulseaudio are such things - pulseaudio is what is to become _the_ solution AFAIK.
Do you have one of these active?
Your programs should be configured to output the sound to that daemon instead of directly to the sound card.
Control-panel - audio-settings (you still did not say what linux-distribution or what desktop-environment you are using)
Oh, this is su*ks. Is there any solution I can play a game and listen to a music? I mean, let's say this: I cannot even play a game (Like Enemy Territory) and use the Teamspeak (or Ventrilo, this is really doesn't matter) at the same time. How su*ks.
I'm using the newest Ubuntu btw.
Maybe you should indeed have a look at System --> Preferences --> Audio
You can select the Output-Devices to be eighter of: autodetected, alsa, oss, your sound-card directly or pulse-audio
Only very few modern programs will not be able to use alsa - the best choice is probably pulse-audio.
The problem you describe is why it was invented...so to say - to be able to hear from more than one source at once...
Oh, this is su*ks. Is there any solution I can play a game and listen to a music? I mean, let's say this: I cannot even play a game (Like Enemy Territory) and use the Teamspeak (or Ventrilo, this is really doesn't matter) at the same time. How su*ks.
I'm using the newest Ubuntu btw.
I'd have to point out that in Windows, if you're allowed to do this, it also means the computer can tie up. Doesn't that su*ks more?
Linux is trying to prevent the computer tying up at all costs.
(Just reminiscing when I heard 2 WAV files playing together in Win98, how ecstatic I was)
I'd have to point out that in Windows, if you're allowed to do this, it also means the computer can tie up. Doesn't that su*ks more?
Linux is trying to prevent the computer tying up at all costs.
(Just reminiscing when I heard 2 WAV files playing together in Win98, how ecstatic I was)
But, let's say this: If I wanna to play a game with my friends, and I want to talk with them on a Ventrilo or a Teamspeak, I cannot even do that because "Linux is trying to prevent the computer tying up at all costs.", wtf.
What he was actually saying is: linux will not allow this way to lock up your computer.
He was not saying: linux does not allow using multiple audio sources at once.
To make this possible, things like pulseaudio, esd, arts, jack, dmix... have been invented - I already said that.
Did you not get this and instead of getting to fixing a probably simple configuration issue just want to say "wtf" & su*ks?
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