From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NGRIU-0001ef-KD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:05:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B09CE0800 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 06:05:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f224.google.com (mail-gx0-f224.google.com [209.85.217.224]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A3AEE076F for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 04:27:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk24 with SMTP id 24so1347489gxk.6 for ; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:27:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=E9uVHBYXo3WawKPEhFWKdiBG1+n1cx0tYLUXMFE9R/o=; b=p60DkHMZp+Ki9DVr5VzIPreXb2i7Yro8fclmca2QQLpq7AuNCES6BdGks6DYrdN3EC Mem9Wd6KfpSjRtMiHmp9j9UaNLo04V0WmXCQqfMGkA0wKTEIc5Y94WY6qEseXKuRXsda uNzkGiN97e5p/mmw/L0f9cYYgZSbZrSSud6Og= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=qdQlnHCD3tHVHoQfSIga61TDKiSF9oplZFFc+v1IL6tId3ZLievVdRzEO7oAfpApEo vNTxY2sQGckFdjliwvLtQ/tz4LVzAG62yeHZin2Cq3eU2GdFL55b5GTi7r39rZ4ggELd 9VdlIkZZONKK9SNTuYOkha3zHAZb8mX59E/B8= Received: by 10.101.111.20 with SMTP id o20mr3299057anm.185.1259900844077; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:27:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-0-94-29.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.94.29]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 34sm1393525yxf.11.2009.12.03.20.27.22 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:27:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B188FA9.1080807@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:27:21 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20091201 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 30f16f73-5097-4518-9a13-40db4b1d48e3 X-Archives-Hash: 04898f445b6e137bbec7ecd5c62ac9a4 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 :-) :-)