Re: which sound card?

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

Craig

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