sound problems

[Shibz]

Can someone please explain to me how the sound works? I am having major problems. I want to be able to have multiple things playing sound at the same time, I want be able to play a game, listen to mp3's and talk on teamspeak (voice chat program) at the same time, but I can't get more than one to play sound at a time. Please help. Thanks.

[z0ny]

Do you use ALSA? Which soundcard do you have and which driver do you use? Which distribution do you use? Kernel version? You have to give us more information to efficiently help you... :/

[Shibz]

Soundcard: Esoniq ES1371

Kernel: 2.6.10-1.770_FC3

Distro: Fedora Core 3

Desktop: KDE

 

I have been trying to get aRts working, but I am having trouble getting some programs to work with it. So far I have only gotten xmms to work with it. I tried setting up Gaim with it, but the sounds don't play in gaim when I have music on, then after the music stops, I get flooded with 10 minutes of constant rings from gaim.