which sound card?

[wayne]

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