sound card weirdness? newbie question
Hi all,
I have finally made the full switch to linux, with windows running in an
emulator for company oriented stuff, and I was very impressed with the
improvements from potato as far as installing on my laptop, but as
always I have questions.:)
I have my soundcard supported but when I start two applications that
want the sound card there seems to be conflicts, so say I am using xmms
to play mp3's and I browse to a web page that needs flash, the browser
freezes up until I stop what ever is playing and then once the page is
loaded I can continue the music. To add to the confusion, if I am
playing a cd there is no problem, but then I don't think I am accessing
the sound server, because I can't set equalizer settings etc. It does
not matter what programs I am using ie. realplayer, xmms, browsers with
flash support if one is operating the other is frozen (I assume while it
waits for the sound resources to open up.)
I am running on a dell latitude laptop with a Maestro3 soundcard. I was
using gnome, but found kde handled switching between sound using
applications better so I am using that now, with gnome I had to
completely close down the application. But it is annoying in both and I
would love some help in figuring out how to fix this.
I know little about the different sound servers, and what I have read
just confuses me more, but I have run into references that the different
sound servers don't play well together. I am wondering if these
different apps are using different servers (I also shut down the system
sounds which helped), and I need to configure them to all use the same
server?
thanks in advance
rohan
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