>>> On Wednesday 05 May 2004 1:29 pm, AJ <Anupam Jain> said:
AJ> Hi everyone,
AJ>
AJ> I am using a COMPAQ Presario Pro 7500 PC with Mandrake 10.0 on it and
I am AJ> unable to play multiple sound files together on it. (Windows 98 and
2000 used AJ> to be able to do that on this very hardware so I'm assuming
it's not AJ> impossible.)
AJ>
AJ> For eg. I'd like to be able to play Quake 3 Arena with XMMS playing
songs in AJ> the background. But when I start Quake, it freezes till XMMS is
done playing AJ> the current song and then takes control of the sound card,
causing XMMS to AJ> throw up an error message saying "Couldn't open audio".
AJ>
AJ> Here is what Harddrake says about my soundcard
AJ> Vendor: ESS Technology
AJ> Alternative drivers: snd-maestro3
AJ> Bus: PCI
AJ> Bus identification: 125d:1988:e11:b19d
AJ> Location on the bus: 1:5:0
AJ> Description: ES1988 Allegro-1
AJ> Module: maestro3
AJ> Media class: MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO
AJ>
AJ> How do I configure my system to do that?
AJ>
<quote>
EsounD -- the Enlightened Sound Daemon -- is a server process
that allows multiple applications to share a single sound
card. For example, when you're listening to music from your CD
and you receive a sound-related event from ICQ, your applications
won't have to jockey for the attention of your sound card.
EsounD mixes several audio streams for playback by a single
audio device.
Install esound if you'd like to allow for such event sharing
by your audio device.
</quote>
Bhaskar
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