sound card/fedora3/

[david walcroft]

mike wrote:

> hi,
>
> using fedora core 3 on a compaq laptop.
> sound card works great but only one application can use it at once.
> i've noticed this happening in the following scenario:
>
> realplayer is streaming and i receive a message on gaim.
>
> gaim gives the error 'sound will be send to the null device'
>
> i dont' have the exact error but if it's necessary let me know.
>
> basically gaim works fine when it's the only when using the sound card.
> ran some tests and basically one ONE application can use the sound 
> card at a time, whichever one used it first hogs the card and no other 
> app can use it.
>
> any suggestions?
>
> mike h
>
Try this http://fedoranews.org/contributors/andre_costa/alsa/

  david