Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Audio device error

[Pierre-Philippe Coupard <pcoupard easyconnect fr>]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> > Wrong - the emu10kx can be opened by 32 programs for playback
> > simultanously (an 8 recording). Mixing is done in hardware.
> >
> > Most probably Kilian is right here, and the OSS emulation modules
> > are missing.
>
> All I know is that I had exactly the same symptoms.  I killed aRts and 
> it worked.

With a SBLive, you can have aRts, esd, ..., and multiple OSS programs running at 
the same time. That's my setup here in fact. A SBLive (or any card that does 
hardware multiplexing) is well worth the investment to spare you pains from the 
incompatible-sound-systems syndrome Linux has been suffering from since ALSA and 
sound daemons have appeared on the scene.

As a side note, that's also why I stick to OSS in my projects that involve sound 
: it's universal, I'm still not convinced the ALSA API has stabilized (and it's 
Linux-only), and sound daemons suck pond water with low-latency audio. OSS will 
probably take even longer than Motif to disappear as a result ;-)

But I digress, sorry...

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Pierre-Philippe Coupard <pcoupard easyconnect fr>
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