Sound issue with KDEand Gcompris/Childsplay

[Nigel Henry]

On Thursday 20 December 2007 08:16, Simon Slater wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 00:18 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> > >       So the sound is working, but I still don't know how!
> >
> > I have you tried dinking with the mixer settings?? Is this a sound
> > card
> > or an on-the-motherboard chipset?
>
> It's a PCI card Ensoniq ES1371 [Audio PCI-97] (rev 0.2). I'll try
> googling for info on it now.  When the box fist got going earlier this
> year, the kids wanted to start using it straight away so the sound got
> forgotten.
>
> > Some older sound cards needed to use
> > an IRQ like 9. Turning off devices like a network card, that may be
> > hogging the IRQ might work. Those older PII's were plug-in-play,
> > right?
>
> This one is.
>
> > There's an RPM for them, but I forget the name. I've been in your
> > shoes
> > with older machines. It can be fun ferreting out the causes.
>
> It is fun - just have to balance with (or justify as) work.
>
> > But I found
> > it usually to be an IRQ issue. Using the bios setting to Plug And Play
> > Aware works at times, too. If I can recall more, I'll be sure to get
> > back to you. Trouble shooting with a shotgun, Ric
>
> I'll poke around and have a look.  Thanks.
>
> --
> Regards
> Simon

Hi Simon.
I have an Ensoniq PCI card (es1371) on my old Gateway P111.

Bear in mind that the majority of soundcards are incapable of handling 
multiple audio streams, the Ensoniq included, therefore it's a case of just 
one music app at a time.

The workaround I use to listen to Internet radio using the BBC radioplayer on 
Opera, is to make sure that the alsa-oss package is installed, and start 
Opera as,
aoss opera

Doing this I can listen to Internet radio, and run another music app at the 
same time. (no need to start the other music app using aoss)

Nigel.