Re: Alsa Sound + channels

Jafaruddin Lie wrote:
> Hi gang.
> I was wondering if you guys can give me a hand here.
> Please note my lack of knowledge RE: sound hardware here.
> 
> I am running Fedora Core 3 on Asus A7v333 that has C-Media (CMI) 8738 

Pardon me if I am wrong, but does the CM-8738 have the ability to play 
concurrent streams?

> soundcard onboard, which was detected fine by the installation and I 
> have no problems playing DivX files, mp3, streaming radios, even flash 
> animations with sounds. The problem is, I can only get 1 sound from 1 
> apps at a time. For example, if I am playing mp3 in the background, I 
> won't get mail notification sound or Gaim's message notification sound 
> or any sound at all. I think this has to do with Alsa only enabling 1 
> channel. Does anyone has .asoundrc handy that I can have a look?

I think the choices you are left with here is either to get a better 
sound card or 'not worry about it'.

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