On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 19:12, Mark Limburg wrote: > Howdy, > > Any ideas on how to have two (or more) applications be able to play > sounds at the same time? When I have XMMS playing Internet radio, I > can't get system sounds, effects in Frozen Bubble or UT/Q3A, etc. I've > tried other variations also .. all with no success. Another example > I've seen is my 'new mail' sound has rung out just as I'm starting to > play Chromium, and Chromium didn't have any sound. I quit it, started > it again, and it was there. > > What sound daemon should I be using, esound, OSS, ALSA .. and how do I > set these up? And links to web pages to help? > > .. err, help? > > .mwl > What Sound card are you using??? I have a Creative Audigy, and it works fine for me. I hear all the system sounds, even when I play UT2K4-Demo etc. It may be, that the sound card is limited in the number of simultaneous sounds it can produce (or it's an old 16Bit card). The Audigy can play 32 sounds at once. Wolf
