Sound problem?

[vhunterd]

Hello, I would like to thank everyone for helping me get my OpenSuSe 10.2 box up and running again! Thanks again for all your help.

The problem I'm having is that whenever I am playing an audio stream, such as from a music cd or a web page, if I have another program try and stream music to output to my speakers I get a bunch of error messages that usually says something like

could not open/initialize sound device -> no sound

I'm not sure if this would be a driver problem or not, since SuSe does seem to detecting my media controller which is listed as (keep in mind this is a build in to the board POS) 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High definition audio controller and I actually do hear (very) good sound coming out of my speakers, its just when I try and use two audio streams that I have a bunch of problems.

I look forward to hearing from you all, this is the last thing I need to fix before I can dump windows.

[gogalthorp]

Are your runnig 32 bit or 64 bit?

Also do you have alsa installed? Jack?

There is a problem with some older 32 bit apps or apps the use OSS rather then alsa sharing the sound system on 64 bit OS.

[vhunterd]

Are your runnig 32 bit or 64 bit?

Also do you have alsa installed? Jack?

There is a problem with some older 32 bit apps or apps the use OSS rather then alsa sharing the sound system on 64 bit OS.

1)32 bit
2)I have alsa installed, I switched to using alsa...and the problem seems to have gone away, thanks for the advice.

[gogalthorp]

Glad you got it working.

OSS is the old linux sound system it only allows one program at a time to use the sound.