New to debian but i'm getting some errors

[Justin2021]

Mostly everything works with my new debian system, which I am really happy with. There are a select few things that seem to be having problems. One of these is getting sound at sites with flash video. The video plays perfeclty well, but for some reason I get no sound. I am using Firefox version 1.5.0.3 and I installed the flash plugins when going to video.google.com. There it gave me an option to install the plugins. And another error that I am getting comes up when trying to use RythmBox:

OSS device "/dev/dsp" is already in use by another program.

Could not pause playback

I already tried exiting all of my programs to see if it would work then, but still getting the same error. Another problem is I can't seem to get winecfg to work whenever I install wine 0.9.11 from the repositories. Is there a way to get my minimized programs to be able to stack on top of each other in the window list, instead of always being side to side. It helps keep my taskbar from being too big.

Help is greatly appreciated

[iwanabeguru]

Hi
OSS is old linux sound system , i suggest you install ALSA
apt-get install alsa-base alsa-utils

and run alsaconf from terminal. That will find your sound card and configure it.

Now you need to edit your .asoundrc in your home directory for multiple output mixing , if the file doesn't exist create it . Here is my asoundrc file copy it to your own file.

pcm.dmixer {
type dmix
ipc_key 1024
slave {
pcm "hw:0,0"
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_size 4096
rate 44100
}
bindings {
0 0
1 1
}
}

ctl.dmixer {
type hw
card 0
}

pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixer"
}

pcm.mixin {
type dsnoop
ipc_key 5978293# must be unique for all dmix plugins!!!!
ipc_key_add_uid yes
slave {
pcm "hw:0,0"
channels 2
period_size 1024
buffer_size 4096
rate 44100
periods 0
period_time 0
}
bindings {
0 0
0 1
}
}

pcm.dsp0 {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixer"
}

ctl.mixer0 {
type hw
card 0
}

restart alsa soundsystem , type to the terminal and push enter
/etc/init.d/alsa restart

now your sound system can play sound from more than one program in the same time.

have fun!

[Zelmo]

To get winecfg working, you need to install the wine-utils package.