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T-Punch

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From: Mumbai, India

Registered: 2009-01-10

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[Solved] Can't play sounds simultaneously

Hi.. I recently installed arch and KDEmod. I have installed Adobe flash (flashplugin) and I dont get any sound in flash videos. I have followed the intructions in the Arch Wiki for alsa and don't seem to find the solution.

Here are all my sound modules loaded currently.

$ lsmod | grep '^snd'
snd_seq_oss            31872  0
snd_seq_midi_event      8192  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                49968  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          8332  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_hda_intel         370736  4
snd_hwdep               8964  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm_oss            40192  0
snd_pcm                69636  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              21384  3 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          9224  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss          16512  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd                    50724  15 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss

Please help.

Thanks

Edit: I installed libflashsupport, and I get the sound, but I cannot play any other sound simultaneously

Last edited by T-Punch (2009-01-13 15:10:19)

RiJo

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Re: [Solved] Can't play sounds simultaneously

Try this:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/All … nd_at_once

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T-Punch

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From: Mumbai, India

Registered: 2009-01-10

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Re: [Solved] Can't play sounds simultaneously

Will installing Pulseaudio solve this problem?? How does PulseAudio perform?

Cheesebaron

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Registered: 2008-10-31

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Re: [Solved] Can't play sounds simultaneously

Pulseaudio can solve your problem yes. It performs quite well, works pretty much out of the box, you just need to start the daemon and avahi and configure some programs that doesn't know of pulseaudio.

I'd recommend OSS4, no need to run additional daemons, just OSS4 itself, and it works with everything I throw after it.

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T-Punch

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From: Mumbai, India

Registered: 2009-01-10

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Re: [Solved] Can't play sounds simultaneously

I opted for PulseAudio since I've used it with Ubuntu. Now sound is working perfect.

T-Punch

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From: Mumbai, India

Registered: 2009-01-10

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Re: [Solved] Can't play sounds simultaneously

Ok.. starting fresh.. I installed PulseAudio and yet I can't play sounds simultaneously esp between a flash video and other source of sound. I read in an OpenSuse Wiki that PulseAudio are only for Gnome systems. Is it true?

And how can I achieve to play simultaneous sounds. Please help

Nezmer

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Registered: 2008-10-24

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Re: [Solved] Can't play sounds simultaneously

Ok.. starting fresh.. I installed PulseAudio and yet I can't play sounds simultaneously esp between a flash video and other source of sound. I read in an OpenSuse Wiki that PulseAudio are only for Gnome systems. Is it true?

And how can I achieve to play simultaneous sounds. Please help

Did you install libflashsupport ?

A lot of applications need recompilation If you want native PulseAudio support .

If you don't need the networking features of PA , I strongly recommend installing OSS4 ( pacman -S oss libflashsupport-oss) .

Last edited by Nezmer (2009-01-13 14:42:55)

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T-Punch

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From: Mumbai, India

Registered: 2009-01-10

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Re: [Solved] Can't play sounds simultaneously

Really weird, I removed PulseAudio to install OSS4. And in between I just tested ALSA and I could play sounds simultaneously. Lucky I guess. Now I'm set to enjoy the ride with Arch. Thanks guys for your help.