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    No Sound Mixing

    I have a Linux splott-desktop 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Fri Aug 31 00:55:27 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux, with Ubuntu Feisty, KDE 3.5.6.

    I am using ESD (for the moment) and cannot get two applications to use the soundcard at the same time.
    All the howtos are for non-K versions and say something about a checkbox that says "ESD mixing" and I don't have that.

    I did try the method at the bottom of the page here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/De...gSoundProblems

    At the moment I have sound as long as I only do one thing at a time...but I'd really like to have both.

    Anyone know what I should be doing? Oh, my soundcard is a generic, recognized, SiS onboard soundcard, I don't need much more.
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    Re: No Sound Mixing

    Look down this page for: Getting more than one application to use the soundcard at the same time

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/So...8e9a586a007705
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      Re: No Sound Mixing

      Originally posted by splott
      I have a Linux splott-desktop 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Fri Aug 31 00:55:27 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux, with Ubuntu Feisty, KDE 3.5.6.

      I am using ESD (for the moment) and cannot get two applications to use the soundcard at the same time.
      All the howtos are for non-K versions and say something about a checkbox that says "ESD mixing" and I don't have that.

      I did try the method at the bottom of the page here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/De...gSoundProblems

      At the moment I have sound as long as I only do one thing at a time...but I'd really like to have both.

      Anyone know what I should be doing? Oh, my soundcard is a generic, recognized, SiS onboard soundcard, I don't need much more.
      what are the applications? alsa (basically linux sound system) should use software mixing by default if soundcard (read most ;-) ) doesn't have hardware mixing capability
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        Re: No Sound Mixing

        I switched it to ALSA.
        No such luck. :/

        I can't do any two, as far as I can tell, I've tried various combinations, one always fails.

        The two I really would like to do are Java (I use text-to-speech thru the Firefox extension Click,Speak), and any streaming-mp3 player.
        This is how I study best, and it should be possible, it certainly has been in the past.

        Any other ideas?
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          Re: No Sound Mixing

          Originally posted by splott
          This is how I study best, and it should be possible, it certainly has been in the past.
          Any other ideas?
          Could something block your soundcard? disable arts? kmenu> system settings> ...
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            #6
            Re: No Sound Mixing

            err....where's that ... go?
            I don't see where I can disable arts....(yes, indeed, I'll try anything. :P )
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              #7
              Re: No Sound Mixing

              Originally posted by splott
              err....where's that ... go?
              I don't see where I can disable arts....(yes, indeed, I'll try anything. :P )
              system settings> sound system> remove the checkmark
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                #8
                Re: No Sound Mixing

                Huh, I thought I needed that.

                I did uncheck that now. No difference tho, do I need a restart/reboot of some sort?
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                  Re: No Sound Mixing

                  Originally posted by splott
                  Huh, I thought I needed that.

                  I did uncheck that now. No difference tho, do I need a restart/reboot of some sort?
                  no, can you play your mp3s and hear sound, say in flashvideos (youtube?)?
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                    Re: No Sound Mixing

                    As a matter of fact, yes! That must mean something, right??
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                      Re: No Sound Mixing

                      Yeah, it means aRts doesn't work for you.
                      If everything works fine without it, I'd leave it as-is. ALSA has more or less superseded aRts anyway.
                      For external use only.
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                        #12
                        Re: No Sound Mixing

                        Um, no.
                        Everything does NOT work fine without it.
                        I have the same d*mn problem I started with.
                        Can't combine streaming mp3 with sound produced thru my java-firefox extension.
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                          Re: No Sound Mixing

                          All right then.
                          I'm not sure what to tell you (I don't see this problem too often), but I think the solution is to get aRts and compile it from source.

                          Shouldn't be too hard with apt-get on your side. "apt-get source arts" will fetch the source from the repos and stick it in the current directory. (You may want to create a subdirectory to make it cleaner.), Then, just go into the aRts dir under the current one, "./configure; make; sudo make install" and it should work fine.

                          But, as I said, I don't know if that's the fix. Have you looked around in Adept for packages you might need (search for "arts")?
                          For external use only.
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                            Re: No Sound Mixing

                            Originally posted by splott
                            As a matter of fact, yes! That must mean something, right??
                            your firefox text-to speech extension blocks the soundcard for some reason probably
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                              Re: No Sound Mixing

                              Originally posted by klerfayt
                              Originally posted by splott
                              As a matter of fact, yes! That must mean something, right??
                              your firefox text-to speech extension blocks the soundcard for some reason probably
                              you could try something like this:
                              http://www.heybuss.us/linux/flashfirefox.html
                              remember to enable sound system (kmenu> system settings> sound system)
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