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Old 03-22-2006, 11:00 PM   #1
bkz81
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Unhappy Sound Problems with Linux?


Hello all. I am using the 64bit version of SUSE. The problem is when i use lets say for example Skpye, and then try to open up a music file it will not let me play the music file. It's like linux only supports one dedicated sound source at a time. In windows i can run skype, play music, games and so on without having conflicting sound problems. Does anybody know a work around with this?? I am using the onboard sound if you are wondering. Thank you for your time on this matter.



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Old 03-22-2006, 11:54 PM   #2
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Alsa supports multiple applications at once. Perhaps you are defaulted to oss or something else in your applications. I'm able to watch multiple baseball games (i like baseball) with mplayer and alsa. I could not do that when it was defaulted to oss.
 
Old 03-23-2006, 12:49 AM   #3
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hi to all my linux friend,

my system configuration is
intel chipset 915gl motherboard
p4 2.66ghz processor
512 mb ram ddr
and 120 gb hdd

my question is :

i have installed red hat linux 9 having kernel version 2.4

its work properly but my sound card is not detected yet

i have installed many alsa driver but no one is working

how to configure my sound driver
as i used soundconfig utility but this also not recognizing my sound card

is this the problem of all the 915 chipset motherboard
or yet here driver is not released

any one helping is most welcome
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Old 03-23-2006, 12:55 AM   #4
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hey one more problem yaar,

i installed windows xp 1st in hda1 drive

then linux red hat 9 in hda9

lastly i installed suse 9.3 in hda14

my problem is i cant see the linux option during booting

only it show three option

1 windows
2 suse
3 floppy

then how to go in linux red hat 9
is there any solution
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any one helping is most welcome
 
Old 03-23-2006, 09:07 AM   #5
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I set the sound to ALSA in Yast but that didn't help out. I am still unable to use muiltple applications that use sound. not sure where to go from here, except back to windows I have also tried to set the applications that i use to ALSA to no avail. The main apps that i use are Cedega, Skype, Teamspeak, and Amarok. Thank you once agian for your time on this matter.
 
Old 03-23-2006, 09:29 AM   #6
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You need to get a sound server to handle mutliple sounds.
This is simply a daemon that runs in the backround and mixes sounds.
I hear aRts is quite good.
Have a look at their site: http://www.arts-project.org/
And have a google for "Linux Sound Servers".

Hope this helps.
 
Old 03-23-2006, 08:12 PM   #7
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Thanks for the reply back, but look like this is not going to work out for me. I'm getting all these dependencies errors, and i'm not sure what to next. I just get very frustrated with linux when you have to do things like this, just to run multiple apps with sound.
 
Old 07-13-2006, 04:13 AM   #8
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When I use Teamspeak I don't know why but I suddenly have a problem with chatting with more than one person. I get a feedback of my own voice and it creates a loop sound that continues to build up (i don't know what happens after, i leave soon after the stupid noises start). And I also have issues with running multiple sounds at the same time, i.e. XMMS, TeamSpeak and a game. I'm running FC5 and using nVidia default audio drivers.
Any help will be great.
 
  


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