This is a FAQ but I haven't yet seen a nice succinct page with a nice succinct answer.
It boils down to this. You have two options: hardware (better soundcard) or software (dmix, artsd, or esd). http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=DmixPlugin On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 at 15:55 -0600, Eric Jensen wrote: > I haven't had this problem with Linux in some time. I can only have one > program use the sound device at a time. Which has become increasingly > annoying as some background app or some banner add will lock the device > up for minutes at a time. Any ideas how to fix this? I'm in Suse 9.2. > > Eric > .===================================. > | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | > | Don't Fear the Penguin. | > | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | > `===================================' > -- .O. Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. ..O http://hans.fugal.net | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg OOO | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460
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