On Saturday 06 May 2006 16:47, Marty wrote: > My system is stock Sarge, with Gnome and stock Debian kernel. > > I rarely use OSS programs, and when I did try to use one recently I found > that OSS was not working. After some investigation I found that it started > working again after I unchecked the "enable sound server startup" option in > the Gnome applications->desktop preferences->sound dialog box. Now all > programs seem to have sound, but I can only run one OSS program at a time. > (ALSA programs still share the soundcard.) This isn't an OSS or esound limitation. Your sound card can only play one sound at a time. Esound can work around this for esound-enabled programs. But what you really want in the long run is something like a SoundBlaster 128 Live!, which costs only $30 and can play many sounds at once. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): baloo@ursine.ca Jabber: Because it's time to move forward http://ursine.ca/Ursine:Jabber
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