Re: Simultanous Sounds?

From: Mark Limburg (mlimburg_at_users.on.net)
Date: 03/15/04

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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 00:22:10 +1030

    Howdy,

    On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 00:13, Wolfgang wrote:
    > > Any ideas on how to have two (or more) applications be able to play
    > > sounds at the same time? When I have XMMS playing Internet radio, I
    > > can't get system sounds, effects in Frozen Bubble or UT/Q3A, etc. I've
    > > tried other variations also .. all with no success. Another example
    > > I've seen is my 'new mail' sound has rung out just as I'm starting to
    > > play Chromium, and Chromium didn't have any sound. I quit it, started
    > > it again, and it was there.
    > >
    > > What sound daemon should I be using, esound, OSS, ALSA .. and how do I
    > > set these up? And links to web pages to help?

    > What Sound card are you using???
    >
    > I have a Creative Audigy, and it works fine for me. I hear all the
    > system sounds, even when I play UT2K4-Demo etc. It may be, that the
    > sound card is limited in the number of simultaneous sounds it can
    > produce (or it's an old 16Bit card). The Audigy can play 32 sounds at
    > once.

    Running the onboard sound from an ASUS nForce2 mobo. Very very nice
    sound on the XP side of the fence ... so I doubt that's the specific
    issue.

    I have managed to get *some* of it working .. I've configured XMMS to
    use esd and now it's playing nice. Well, mostly .. if I run XMMS and
    play Frozen Bubble, then it's all good .. if I run XMMS and play UT (not
    UT2004 mind), then it's back to a silent game.

    .mwl 

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