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Sound problem

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When i play with wow under wine, is normal that any other sound cant work?
For example, if i launch wow and then i try to listen music, only the wow sound worl, vice versa, if i am listening music and i launch wow, the game's sound dont work...
is it possible to fix it?
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i'm sorry...but that's not very clear for me...
it just mean i cant listen music or use teamspeak when i play with wine?
What if a try to use teamspeak with wine + a game for example? it will work?
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Post by vitamin »

interferenza wrote:i'm sorry...but that's not very clear for me...
it just mean i cant listen music or use teamspeak when i play with wine?
What if a try to use teamspeak with wine + a game for example? it will work?
Depends on your hardware, drivers and configuration. With OSS you can not use more then one program if your hardware & drivers do not support hardware mixing.
With ALSA - you have to use dmix (used to be enabled by default).
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On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 05:00 -0500, interferenza wrote:
When i play with wow under wine, is normal that any other sound cant work?
It depends on your sound card. If you're using some ancient POS or the
on-board AC97 sound, then yes, that's the "correct" behavior: Your
sound card is only able to handle one sound stream at a time.
For example, if i launch wow and then i try to listen music, only the
wow sound worl, vice versa, if i am listening music and i launch wow,
the game's sound dont work...
is it possible to fix it?
Spend the $5 to get yourself an old SoundBlaster Live PCI and get rid of
whatever piece of shit sound card you're using now.

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On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 07:18 -0500, interferenza wrote:
i'm sorry...but that's not very clear for me...
it just mean i cant listen music or use teamspeak when i play with wine?
What if a try to use teamspeak with wine + a game for example? it will work?
If your card does not have a hardware mixer, you will never, ever be
able to use two progams trying to use sound at the same time.

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Paul Johnson
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Post by interferenza »

damn...true. it dont work also if i launch a music player and try to view a video on youtube.
but on windows i was able to do it, i used to play and listening music with the same card.
with linux is not really possible? i really have to buy a sound card?in that case...what i should say to the hardwere guy for my new card?

Can i use a differend sound card even if the one i have now is in the mobo?
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