Not able to play two sounds at once

Sedrik

Hi all

I can't play two audio streams at once, using a nvidia nforce2 based mb (sry don't know more info about it). Can this be fixed? quite anoying having to turn sound of all the time if I'm going to stream a movie or sound not being played to notify me of stuff while I'm listening to music.
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labba · Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 9:53 am Post subject:

Hi!
You are using ALSA, right?
To play more than one sound at one you have to enable software-Mixing (aka dmix). Have a look at the Gentoo Wiki.

Sedrik · Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 9:56 am Post subject:

yes ALSA, I will have a look thanks =)
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Sedrik · Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:01 am Post subject:

Which package provides aoss?
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labba · Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:04 am Post subject:

Should be media-libs/alsa-oss

Sedrik · Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:12 am Post subject:

hmm ok, do I need to restart any proccess to make them understand that dmix should be used? Following the instructions did not help

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labba · Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:22 am Post subject:

hmm maybe restarting alsa: /etc/init.d/alsasound restart

Which applications won't play together?

Sedrik · Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:31 am Post subject:

audiocius and mpg321 wont play nice, I restarted alsasound and get this when trying to play things in a term.

labba · Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 11:21 am Post subject:

Hhmm... I'm sorry, but I don't know what's causing this error.
Maybe updating alsa-lib helps?
Did you setup your ~/.asoundrc according to the special information for Nforce-Chipsets mentioned in the wiki?

Sedrik · Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 8:26 pm Post subject: