audio programs locking each other out.

[stan <stanb@panix.com>]

I'm having a problem with running more than one application that wants to
access the sound hardware at once. The applications don't have to actually
be "using" the hardware, they just have to "have used" it, and not been
exited. 

Is there some way I can fix this?

Here's dmesg for my sound card:

es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x1371 revision 0x08
es1371: found es1371 rev 8 at io 0xe800 irq 10 joystick 0x0
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: CRY19 (Cirrus Logic CS4297A rev A)

Kerenl is:

2.6.9 #

Appropriate (I think info from lsmodules):

snd_bt87x              13768  0
snd_ens1371            22116  0
snd_rawmidi            22820  1 snd_ens1371
snd_seq_device         10248  1 snd_rawmidi
snd_pcm                79748  2 snd_bt87x,snd_ens1371
snd_timer              23556  1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         11272  2 snd_bt87x,snd_pcm
snd_ac97_codec         63952  1 snd_ens1371
snd                    46436  8
snd_mixer_oss,snd_bt87x,snd_ens1371,snd_rawmidi,sn

Any help on this would be appreciated.

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