On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 20:59 +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > Adam Bogacki wrote: > >> I'm using voip on my machine (Ekiga) and all is working fine. But I > >> notice that when I've been playing music and then try to place a call, I > >> get an error along the lines of "Could not open audio channel for audio > >> reception". > > > > You need to set up a .asoundrc using dmix which allows multiple > > applications. > > > > See > > <http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Getting_several_applications_using_the_sound_card_at_the_same_time_%3F> > > > > I you don't have a '/home/user/.asoundrc' create one. Cut 'n paste .. > > Thanks Adam. Other people have recommended I use RhythmBox (because it > uses ALSA). It's a bit clunky compared to xmms - any other ALSA music > players people could recommend?
How about xmms? :) Preferences->"Audio I/O Plugins" tab -> Output Plugin = ALSA. Configure->Audio device= "default" Uses Dmix happily here (even though dmix sucks in other ways, and we need to replace it - but that's an issue for future distro releases :) J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] The woman you buy -- and she is the least expensive -- takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself takes all your time. - Balzac -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
