On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 16:08 +0000, HEDGER, Tim, FM wrote: > 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). >
It should Just Work, as long as you made sure to configure artsd to use ALSA, not OSS, and are running alsa-lib and alsa-driver 1.0.9 or later. Lee ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
