crock Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 Just wanted to know if this is normal. When I play a song in xmms, I'm unable to hear any sounds from gAIM. The sounds in gAIM will then queue until I turn off the song, then afterwards, will play a notification for every message I recieved during the timespan in which I had the song playing. SO... I just wanted to know if this is normal operation. I know in Windows I can do a whole slew of things with audio at the same time (Instant Messanger, Winamp, Media Player, etc.) Why is it that I can only use one at a time in Linux? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 It's normal.. since the nforce2 sound driver in linux doesn't support multiple channel yet. There is a workaround for this. If you use kde, arts must be enabled. For xmms, install xmms-arts plugin and use it. This way, you can still play sound in xmms while still having warning sounds in gaim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 ps Enable arts at startup in the KDE control panel/sound :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crock Posted January 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 Ah very good! Thanks alot for the info, that would explain it! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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