which sound card?

[wayne]

Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 11:09 -0700, wayne wrote:
>   
>> Craig White wrote:
>>     
>>> On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 10:45 -0700, wayne wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Craig White wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 09:39 -0700, wayne wrote:
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>>>> I have run into a issue with my Kubuntu System configuration.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I play a game called Urban Terror - online.
>>>>>> I also need to run TEAMSPEAK, a  2-way comm app that works like a party 
>>>>>> line.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If I start TS first, i cannot hear the game sounds
>>>>>> If I start the game first, I cannot leave its window to start TS
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I cannot run both at the same time and i need to.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What card should  use?  Looking for the most INEXPENSIVE
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>             
>>>>> ----
>>>>> This sounds more like an alsa problem than a sound card problem as to my
>>>>> knowledge, alsa will lock out any other software from attaching to the
>>>>> sound hardware once a program has attached to it. This was the itch that
>>>>> pulseaudio intended to scratch. Do you have pulseaudio running?
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> I don't know. How do I check
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>>  Is it
>>>>> possible to use pulseaudio?
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> I dont know
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>>  Which version of Kubuntu?
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> 8.04.1
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> ----
>>> that should have pulseaudio...
>>>
>>> how to check...from cli (fedora system)
>>>
>>> $ ps aux|grep pulse
>>> craig     3027  7.7  0.5 163604  5136 ?        Ssl  05:20
>>> 26:24 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start
>>> craig     3074  0.0  0.2   7912  2076 ?        S    05:21
>>> 0:00 /usr/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> I GET: wayne 13917 0.0 0.0 4064 780 pts/1 S+ 11:07 0:00 grep pulse
>>     
> ----
> it's not running.
>
> You might try executing (as user not root), 'pulseaudio --start' and see
> what happens. If the connection is refused, that would likely be caused
> by some program already attached to your sound hardware.
>
> This link might be useful...
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio
>
> Craig
>
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wayne at Ivan:~$ pulseaudio --start
pulseaudio: unrecognized option `--start'
E: main.c: Failed to parse command line.
wayne at Ivan:~$ pulseaudio
W: alsa-util.c: Device hw:1 doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 16000 Hz.
W: alsa-util.c: Device hw:1 doesn't support 2 channels, changed to 1.


No idea what to do