Hi. First, a disclaimer. I'm a real novice in the field of computer audio and audio in general. If I get the terminology or anything else wrong, please correct me. Flaming me would be rather pointless.
I've been having problems getting two applications working at the same time. One is TeamSpeak, which is a program that turns one's microphone and speakers/headphones into a full-duplex real-time network conversation system. TeamSpeak is commonly used by those who play games on the net and need to coordinate their strategy during the game without having to type in long messages. The other is the game itself, or in this case, Enemy Territory, the free standalone Return to Castle Wolfenstein expansion pack. When TeamSpeak is running and I try to run Enemy Territory, the screen goes black and ET hangs. The only way to kill it safely is to kill the X server. From what I've been able to collect on the net, both TeamSpeak and ET open /dev/dsp in full-duplex mode (read-write?) which is odd since there's no built-in voice capture system in ET. The only working solution I was able to find on TeamSpeak forums was using two sound cards with a cable from one's line out to the other's line in. I think it's a bad hack. Plus I need the other card in my other computer. Is there a way around this... limitation? Or is it more related to the way that the kernel works so that two programs can't have exclusive access to the same file? Would it not be possible to set up a sound server that creates many device nodes that act like /dev/dsp including the recording part? I probably have it all ass-backwards. Anyway, the sound card Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 and the kernel is vanilla 2.6.5. If there's anyone out there who knows of a way to get these two working at the same time on the same computer with only one sound card, please let me know. -- Elver Loho ++[>+++<-]>[<++>-]<[>+++++<-]>>>+++[<+++>-]<[<+>-]<.>> +++++++++++++[<+++>-]<[<+>-]<.>>+++++[<++>-]<[<+>-]<.> >++[<+++++>-]<[<->-]<-------.>>+++++[<++>-]<[<+>-]<+++. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
