Sound card for two applications

[Amadeus W. M.]

On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 16:58:43 -0400, Brian Mury wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 15:41 -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote:
>> I have tried to use skype when my browser have the control of the sound 
>> card, and i have to turn off all applications that uses the sound card 
>> in order to use the one i want.
>> 
>> i have read somewhere that it is needed to install a special software to 
>> make linux able to run two aplications that uses the same sound card.
> 
> http://www.skype.com/help/guides/soundsetup_linux.html

In gnome, Desktop->Preferences->Sound and check Enable sound server
startup.

Then you can check with ps and see that it really started.