Good Bye FC5

[Gene Heskett]

Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> Em Terça 16 Maio 2006 09:01, Tim escreveu:
>> Brian Mury:
>>>> This is not a gmfsk problem. This simply means that some other program
>>>> has the soundcard locked, and gmfsk is unable to access it. You need to
>>>> find out what program is using the soundcard. For example, I have to
>>>> shut down Skype before I can run gmfsk.
>> On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 20:59 -0500, Russell Golden wrote:
>>> I'm not as into hardware/OS interaction as much as I'd like
>>> to be, but are you saying that Linux can't duplex sound?
>> Yes, it can.  However, Skype uses an older sound system that doesn't.
>> It hogs the sound system to itself.  Most of the time, if all the
>> programs use ALSA, they can each produce sound concurrently.
> 
> If you're using kde, you can try to run skype with artsdsp. 
> If it works, skype will use arts instead of trying to access /dev/dsp 
> directly.

I am running kde, and both ekiga and skype suffer from some sort of 
feedback problem on my end.

Can you explain how skype is forced into the artsdsp usage camp?

> []'s
> Marcelo
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Cheers, Gene