Well if you only have your motherboard and are using that for your sound configuration, then however you have your ALSA set up, it will only let one program use the sound driver.  I have that problem with my World of Warcraft and Teamspeak.  Although If you are nifty enough to have an actual sound card with your motherboard, you may find this helpful.
<br><br><a href="http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ALSA_Complete_%28includes_dmix%29">http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ALSA_Complete_%28includes_dmix%29</a><br><br>regards.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Jan Meier</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:jan@codejunky.org">jan@codejunky.org</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello,<br><br>I have a problem with mplayer-bin and alsa when amarok is playing. When I play<br>a movie mplayer shows the following error message:<br><br>alsa-init: using device default<br>alsa-lib: pcm_direct.c:222:(make_local_socket) connect failed: èÔZ¡: No such
<br>file or directory<br>alsa-lib: pcm_dmix.c:851:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to connect client<br>alsa-init: playback open error: No such file or directory<br>Could not open/initialize audio device -&gt; no sound.<br><br>
When I stop amarok it does work fine. Any suggestions why?<br><br>Regards<br><br>Jan<br><br>--<br>Get my public key from: <a href="http://www.codejunky.org/codejunky.asc">www.codejunky.org/codejunky.asc</a><br><br><br></blockquote>
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