On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Ekhlas Sonu wrote: > Hi, > > I have been trying to run multiple instances of Flightgear from my > computer (RHEL-5 64 bit). I need to do that for my research. However, > only one instance of Flightgear runs while the other crashes giving this > error: > > I think the first instance of Flightgear is occupying audio resources > and not willing to share it as when one instance of FG is running, no > other audio function works. Can anyone tell me how to solve this > problem?
Yes, you have identified the problem correctly. It appears that, for some reason, your OpenAL library is configured to use OSS (the very old Linux sound system) which usually only allowed one sound application at a time (though a few cards could support a /dev/dsp1 too). However, since we are not still in the 1990s your system probably have a more capable sound system available, perhaps Alsa. If you have Alsa and OpenAL-soft you can put the following in your .alsoftrc file to configure it to use Alsa: and...@sleipner:~$ cat .alsoftrc format = AL_FORMAT_STEREO16 cf_level = 2 drivers = alsa [alsa] # ALSA backend stuff device = plug:dmix capture = plug:dsnoop See also /etc/openal/alsoft.conf (if you have that file). If you have the other OpenAL library (Creative's old reference implementation) the file to create is .openalrc and it has a different syntax which I have forgotten. Cheers, Anders -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anders Gidenstam WWW: http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
