Actually, a non-multichannel sound card can play multiple sounds simultaneously by using something like the enhanced sound daemon (esd). I use esd on my ancient systems all of the time, and am quite happy with the way it works. Mplayer can be compiled to support esd, and other audio players support esd as well. I listened to the realtime audio from the last space shuttle mission on my system while I was using the system for other things (including some things which produced some sound effects), and had no trouble with the sounds all playing through my old card at once. HTH, and have a _great_ day! On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 07:11:08AM -0500, Kenny Hitt wrote: > Hi. > > I've never heard of the media player you are using. Have you tried > alsaplayer, mplayer, zinf, or totem? All of these support play list > files, so you can set them up to play everything on the file system > (including streams). Mplayer and totem can play Windows media and Real > audio if you have the codecs installed, and you tell totem to use Xime > instead of gstreamer. > > What sound card is in the box? Your problem with no music while using > software speech is probably caused by your sound card not being multi > channel. > > I believe you mentioned in an earlier post your job is now in Linux. If > you hate Linux so much, can I have your job and you can go back to > Windows? > > Kenny > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. rreid at sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid ...passing through The City of Internet at the speed of light! _PI = 4 * ARCTAN (1)
