[linux-audio-user] Sound servers conflict

[Hillel]

Hi all,

I am new to the list and new to Linux audio.

I wrote a simple QT program that uses sound, and it requires the NAS 
sound server.

I installed NAS from Mandrake rpm's rebooted the box, and the program 
works great.

The problem is that most of my other software, for example Amarok, 
stopped producing sound.

Prior to installing NAS, I used KDE and there sound server aRts. When I 
start Amarok I get a message from aRts, that it can't open device for 
playback.

I thus have two questions:

1. Is there a way to resolve such a situation, in a way that allows two 
programs that use different sound servers to play sounds at the same time?

2. A more generic question: Why do we have to use sound servers in 
Linux? shouldn't it be the job of the operating system to allow sound 
multiplexing through a set of standard API's? The situation is 
especially bad, if there is no comfortable solution to the problem in my 
first question.


Thanks,

Hillel.