There are exception to this, like Creative Live! card/driver can handle upto 32 channels, mixing the appropriately before rendering them on your speaker.
OTH, one can run daemon like esd or arts to do the mixing in software and produce the output. In this case, esd capable application just posts the sound data to esd(agent) which is locking the /dev/dsp
HTH
Supreet
Viksit Gaur wrote:
Hullo!
Whats the deal with running 2 applications using /dev/dsp together? Lets say i want to run xmms and play quake3a, I can't - Q3 just won't start. Killing off xmms immediately starts it.
Also, what if i'm using xmms, and suddenly need to see a video in mplayer - mplayer gives me an error saying that it couldn't open /dev/dsp.
Is it because xmms locks the file, or changes its access permissions? or is it just some setting somewhere which needs to be changed?
Cheers!
Vik
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