TopDog Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 Hi. I love to listen to webradio with XMMS, do it ALL the time. But my problem is that when I do that, there comes no sound from Kopete... I've set Kopete up to make sounds when a message arrives etc, but these sounds don't sound when I use XMMS. Isn't it possible to get two sounds at once, or is it a setting I've missed? Using Mandrake 9.2 with KDE 3.1, Nvidia nForce2 chipset btw... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 Nvidia nForce2 chipset btw... ahh, yeah the full duplex from the nForce2..more or less same reason as you!!! If im chilling listening to music I like to know when new mail arrives or GAIM pings etc. I tried this under mandrake and it got awfully complex, partly I think becuase I was using the enterprise kernel. I never actually got it working and ended up with so many patches I wrecked 9.1.... Unperturbed I took this golden opportunity to install 9.2 but something bombed on the install.... oh yeah the nforce drivers!!! darn-it i took time making the source directory visible on a different drive but they wouldn't play!!! I decided that .. well try and download the darn latest source and recompile... and used knoppix...and lo and behold it worked!!! no fuss.... I still haven't got round to the Mandy install.... which is annoying and I figure my next will be on different hardware (AMD64) The point is IT CAN WORK and is doing under Debian so if you persist it can be made to happen under mandrake. Im on a FN41G, which shuttle is it??? If you have the space and NEED a working distro then id suggest trying it in a spare install. I tried so much stuff I couldn't remember what I did. I think it actually worked eventually but by that time i had tried so much stuff everything else was falling apart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 I'm confused, why don't you set Xmms to use "arts" as output plugin. Then all the sound from both apps will be passed to the arts deamon, allowing both apps to play sound at once. (Based on the assumption that you are running KDE) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopDog Posted February 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 (edited) set Xmms to use "arts" as output plugin. Yes, you are my hero! That worked perfectly, thanks Gowator: I have the SN41G2 that I just bought the new SilentX PSU for... now it's just that damned IBM Deskstar that makes a LOT of noise, it'll be the nex HW do be changed for me. Edited February 12, 2004 by TopDog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 Most apps now provide the option to use arts for sound, or enlightment for Gnome users. If a particular app doesn't there is a simepl work round, change the KDE shortcut (or console command) so the command is: soundwrapper <app> That will pass any attempts the app makes to use your sound card to arts without the app needing to know about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted February 19, 2004 Report Share Posted February 19, 2004 There is a new approach: you can set up dmix plugin to take advantage of the new software mixer from ALSA (but you need to get ALSA 1.0.x from source): http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122076 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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