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Old 07-06-2008, 02:12 AM   #1
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Such a weird thing.


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.
 
Old 07-06-2008, 02:26 AM   #2
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Tell us you,re system configuration ,like processor , Ram and so on.
And maybe we know the answer

all the best
 
Old 07-06-2008, 02:37 AM   #3
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Ok.
My processor0 is AMD Athlon XP 3200+ 2.4Ghz, and I have 1GB of Ram.
My sound card is using nForce drivers.
 
Old 07-06-2008, 04:00 AM   #4
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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
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Old 07-06-2008, 04:43 AM   #5
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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)
 
Old 07-06-2008, 05:03 AM   #6
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Your programs should be configured to output the sound to that daemon instead of directly to the sound card.
And as far as i know, the program has to be written specifically for this. So your particular game+music situation may not work.
 
Old 07-06-2008, 05:16 AM   #7
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Hmm - good point.
Amarok does work (I think this is a safe assumption)
But the game might not...
 
Old 07-07-2008, 04:33 AM   #8
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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.
 
Old 07-07-2008, 06:15 AM   #9
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It was only guesses - nothing definitive!

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...
 
Old 07-08-2008, 07:17 AM   #10
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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)
 
Old 07-10-2008, 06:59 AM   #11
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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.
 
Old 07-10-2008, 07:14 AM   #12
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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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