ALSA's acting like it's OSS - Only one program can have sound at a time.

[lavacano]

See above.

If I'm playing music in mpd, I don't get sound with whatever Linux game I'm trying to play, and KDE reports the default ALSA output doesn't work.

How do I fix it?

[lavacano]

I don't like doubleposting in threads but I kind of need an answer to this.

[Carl.]

Have you removed all traces of OSS from your system to keep ALSA from interfering?

[lavacano]

[QUOTE=Carl.;28356043]Have you removed all traces of OSS from your system to keep ALSA from interfering?[/QUOTE]

OSS support is not enabled in my kernel.

[editline]1st March 2011[/editline]

[QUOTE=PelPix123;28357366]ALSA can only play one audio source at a time by default, just like OSS, by default. You have to install an audio server like Pulseaudio or enable software mixing in the config file for it to play more than one.[/QUOTE]

Pulse Audio caused nothing to play sound when I tried it, any alternatives?

[lavacano]

Well, apparently sound cards aren't multiuser. Explains a lot of shit don't it?