Sound issue with KDEand Gcompris/Childsplay

[Simon Slater]

On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 04:56 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> 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
> 
	What I have found since yesterday is that the first logged on user has
the sound and no-one else.  This would line up with Nigel's experience.
I have used a few apps, like audacity, but am still learning about what
happens in the background and in the hardware. Figured I'd need
something with more grunt to do anything serious.

	Given the purpose of the box (games and school word
processing/publishing) this workaround should do.  After what I found
yesterday I'll check exactly what is installed and being used.  That'll
be tomorrow now, dinner's being served. I'll keep you posted.



-- 
Regards
Simon