Re: My Debian box is unstable- Why?
xllamp became xmms didn't it? and as for sharing, neither my sb16 no
awe32 allow sharing, only when i recently upgraded to an awe64 could i
get system sounds while playing mp3's.
Peter.
Eric Hagglund wrote:
>
> > First of all I would like to say your kernel is
> > qoute ols, my
> > suggestion: compile a new one!
>
> I will take that under advisement. I don't normally
> like to reinvent the weel just to get a new hubcap
> though .
>
> I know a little dramatic, but if it ain't broke, why
> fix it? Is there something wrong with the 2.0.36
> kernel that I should know about?
>
> > Second (more towards your problem) is why you can't
> > open more than 1
> > x11amp application, my guess is that when you open
> > one, it takes your
> > soundcard (simply because it needs it to
> > function...), when you open a
> > seconds (by the way: Why do you want to???!)
>
> The reason I discovered this problem is not because I
> wanted to run more than a single instance of the same
> program, but because I was trying to run other
> programs (gmc, gnome-napster) that wanted to use it
> concurently and could not, even though I wasn't using
> the sound when running them. Moreover, I found that
> once I had started one of these other programs, I was
> unable to run x11amp after they had run, or if I had
> shut down x11amp, ran the other program and then tried
> to restart x11amp, it wouldn't run.
>
> a bit more to the
> > point: Your soundcard can't
> > be shared OR linux can't share your soundcard.
>
> One device per program? No time sharing? That's a
> little neolithic, don't you think? Am I missing
> something here?
>
> Oswald mentioned that the xmms program might work
> better. Does anyone know if x11amp is still being
> maintained?
>
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