On 8 January 2015 at 17:49, Paul Davis <paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
I keep seeing
people say this, but I have never noticed any program
blocking the sound of any other. I can play sound from mplayer,
audaciuos, audacity, firefox, whatever, all at the same time, never
had pulseaudio installed, everything through alsa. What am I doing
wrong? :p
two possibilities: (a) you're on a distro that decided to try using ALSA's
builtin mixing system ("dmix") (b) you have a really old soundcard that can
mix in hardware.
a) How do I figure out about it
b) Doubt it, it's an onboard chip on an Intel motherboard from 2008.
(Have a separate card for jack/audio work).