Whilst I'm
reasonably comfortable with Linux, sound continues to mystify me. I have
managed to get all the applications that I want to use working with Sound on my
FC4 AMD64 machine, the main ones being:
- xine
- rosegarden
- kaffeine (for its DVB capabilities)
- Skype
That's all fine
except when I try and do more than one thing at once. My specific issue is
having Skype running all the time, so that it can pop up if someone calls or
when I want to use it, and from time to time I use kaffeine.
If I start
kaffeine but don't play anything with it, it doesn't use the sound device and
all is well. But the moment I play a file, or watch DVB, the sound device
is used, and then Skype can't get it when it wants to use it.
I run skype
as:
asrtsdsp -m
skpe
(following many web
trawls as this was the only way I could find to get it to work with
sound).
I haven't done any
special sound config for kaffeine, it just works.
So I need some way
of allowing multiple applications to use sound at the same time, rather than one
blocking the other out. (After I've used kaffeine, it isn't sufficient to
just stop playing something with sound, I have to kill the application
before skype is able to get the sound device).
Can anyone give me
some guidance?
Thanks
Tim
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