only one application at a time can play sound

brown · n00b Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 27

(yea, another sound / alsa problem)

When initially installing Gentoo a few days ago, I emerged nforce-audio, but the sound never worked. After getting everything else working I decided to conquer sound. I started to use the ALSA configuration guide and ran into a bunch of problems, due to still having nvaudio around. So I fully removed nforce-audio and what I had of ALSA, and rebooted a few times until there were no errors at startup (removed from /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4, removed them from rc-update, etc) to start from scratch.

Followed all of the steps in ALSA Config guide, using ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0". Successfully added the service to boot, adjusted mixer settings, played a .wav find using aplay. Realized that I needed OSS emulation for all of the applications I already had installed (particularily totem and gaim) so I emerged that. Had to log out and back in to be able to access /dev/sound/mixer to adjust the gnome volume control. Everything seemed to be working.

However I notice now that only one application is able to play sound at one time. If I play a video in Totem, GAIM won't make the IM sounds, etc.

Anyone know whats up?

Given M. Sur · Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 10:47 pm Post subject:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=140341&highlight=
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brown · n00b Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 27

thanks, but the ALSA solution posted there:

ultrasonic · n00b Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Posts: 55

Use a sound mixer such as esound or arts

brown · n00b Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 27

as dumb as this sounds, how do I set up esound?