sound sharing

[chibois]

i'm using fedora core 4 and whatever its default is for sound, it works and all but only with one program at a time, is there an easy way to make it so multiple programs can use the sound server? please use understandable terms, i know almost nothing about how sound is handled.

hope you can help, it'd be nice to be able to play online java games with sound while watching a movie :)

thanks in advance :)

[XiaoKJ]

Look at dmix, esound and arts in order of priority. There are too many simple guides out in google I won't even link them in.

[je_fro]

If you're using alsa (do "alsamixer" in a term to see the volume controls) have a look at dmix like xiaokj said...here's mine:
pcm.dmixer {
type dmix
ipc_key 1024
slave {
pcm "hw:0,0"
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_size 8192
rate 44100
}

bindings {
0 0
1 1
}
}

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

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

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

ctl.mixer0 {
type hw
card 0
}
that MIGHT work if you save it as /home/you/.asoundrc and restart...
otherwise, google up some dmix tutorials...