Simultaneous sounds with ALSA?

[Mike Frisch]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 01:07:42PM -0700, Brian Bober wrote:
> I have AC'97 (i8x0) Audio built into my MSI Microstar i845G
> motherboard, and there isn't any hardware mixing going on, nor
> software for that matter.

So it appears that ALSA's sound chipset chart isn't entirely
incorrect...

> I just played an mp3 in xmms (using xmms-mp3) and was sending messages to
> myself in GAIM to test, and not hearing the messages but then when xmms
> stopped, i heard all the sounds for the messages.

If you enabled the esd output plugin in xmms and in gaim, you wouldn't
have this problem.  Of course, you'd need to enable esd in GNOME as
well.

Any other app that didn't 'talk' to esd would have the same issues.