On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 07:02 -0800, 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 s
The /dev/dsp is a channel handled by sound driver. In most cases, only
one process can lock on to the channel because sound card/sound driver
are only capable of handling one channel at a time.
There are exception to this, like Creative Live! card/driver can handle
upto 32 channels, mixing the
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 say
