which sound card?

[Craig White]

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
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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