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LinuxUser437442

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Registered: 2009-04-23

Posts: 7

Sound only for one program at a time?

I'm running the 2.6.29-ARCH kernel, 64bit Arch, and kdemod (the latest KDE 4.2.2 version).

My sound card is this:

-PCI Devices-
Audio device        : nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] High Definition Audio

I've done a little research, and it seems like this is a problem, but I haven't found any solutions.

Peasantoid

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Registered: 2009-04-26

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Re: Sound only for one program at a time?

Your applications may be trying to run multiple audio drivers (ALSA/OSS/ESD/PulseAudio/...) at the same time. Not sure how you can go about fixing that, but it's a start...

LinuxUser437442

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Registered: 2009-04-23

Posts: 7

Re: Sound only for one program at a time?

I don't think that is the case. For instance, when I attempt to run civ4 in wine i get this:

Backtrace:
=>1 0x7e1bb0ac in winealsa (+0xb0ac) (0x0032f848)
  2 0x7e64f635 DirectSoundCaptureDevice_Initialize+0x595() in dsound (0x0032f8f8)
  3 0x7e64f7bf IDirectSoundCaptureImpl_Initialize+0x3f() in dsound (0x0032f948)
  4 0x7e64ef0f DirectSoundCaptureCreate+0x7f() in dsound (0x0032f9a8)
  5 0x00a9600a in civilization4 (+0x69600a) (0x00000000)

Zariel

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Registered: 2008-10-07

Posts: 446

Re: Sound only for one program at a time?

Did you try this? http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/All … nd_at_once

LinuxUser437442

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Registered: 2009-04-23

Posts: 7

Re: Sound only for one program at a time?

Thanks Zariel! I totally spaced the wiki part... *faceplam*
So I disabled the OSS modules, whiched stopped my programs from crashing, then in alsamixer, i maxed out PCM sound.

Thanks