Sound issue with KDEand Gcompris/Childsplay

[Kevin Kofler]

Nigel Henry <cave.dnb <at> tiscali.fr> writes:
> 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.

In hardware, that is. ALSA normally provides mixing in software through dmix...

> 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

... but it doesn't work when emulating the old OSS (Open Sound System) 
interface in the kernel, aoss emulates it in userspace, and that works with 
dmix.

By the way, that's for Fedora releases up to Fedora 7. Fedora 8 normally uses 
PulseAudio instead of dmix. There, you'd normally use padsp instead of aoss.

        Kevin Kofler