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hello. i hate these noobish questions that i cant find answers to, so here it goes.
in order to run a program called TeamSpeak and a game (ET and RTCW) at the same time (two programs requiring sound) i need to first disable the input on the games, because TeamSpeak uses the input, and two programs cant do that at the same time through ALSA (im told)
anyway, i run these commands to get the programs to work:
well, each time i restart my comp, i need to re-enter these commands. so, how can i get these commands to run at startup? do i put them in their own script/config or in an existing one or what? please let me know
It really depends on your soundcard. Some soundcards have multiple channels for input, whereas some soundcards have only one.
Mine happens to have 4, which surprises me because it's a cheap onboard AC'97 knock-off. Alsa is perfectly capable of using all the input channels. Mine are controled by using alsamixer, and moving all the way to the right, where I see several DXA channels, 1-4.
If your card has only one, then the only solution I know of to have two programs access sound at the same time is with what's called a sound server. It combines two sources and mixes them down to one, which gets sent to the soundcard's single channel. Esound (gnome/enlightenment), Arts (kde), and JACK (pro audio applications) all do that.
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