Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 12/04/2009 03:12 AM, walt wrote:
>> Most people don't have any need for more than one application to use
>> the sound card at the same time.
>
> I was under the impression that it's quite the opposite.  For example 
> I would still like to hear my MSN messenger go *ping* when someone 
> talks to me while I'm listening to some mp3 and/or am playing a game.
>

I ran into a similar problem a good while back where only one sound 
would play at a time, it was annoying as heck.  If I changed desktops, 
was playing a CD or even just left a tab open with some sound thingy 
playing, I couldn't hear anything else.  I couldn't hear Kopete if 
someone was trying to get me on messenger, couldn't hear the little bell 
when I got a new email or anything.

To say that a person only needs to hear one sound at a time is like 
telling someone to close one eye. 

Dale

:-)  :-)