On Mi, 24 nov 10, 09:36:52, Adrian Knoth wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:19:05PM +0100, marcin wrote: > > [No other audio app starts when there's already one running] > > I'm sorry but I cannot tell which package exactly is the source of the > > problem so I put it in 'general' section. > > Well, looks like a classic: on some (most?) audio cards, ALSA only > supports a single stream. So if you start your flash playback, the audio > device is occupied and hence blocked for other apps. > > The solution is to multiplex/mix in software, most commonly done with > pulseaudio these days. > > Don't you have pulseaudio installed?
ALSA is using dmix by default, but not all applications play well with it (e.g. mpd). Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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