Sound only works with some apps, 8.04

[Knapp]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Jonas Norlander <jonorland at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I am writing a game with python and panda3d. When I run the game from
>>> the CLI, I get errors and the sound will not work.
>>> :audio(error): _system->init(): Error initializing output device.
>>> :audio(error):   FmodAudioManager is not valid, will use NullAudioManager
>>>
>>> But when I run the same code from the programming editor Geany,  the
>>> sound works and there are no errors.
>>>
>>> There must be a setting somewhere that I need to fix for the command
>>> line to work. Any ideas?
>>> Thanks all!
>>
>> More info, it was not Geany that was doing the trick, it is that the
>> first instance of the program locks up the sound so that the second
>> one can not use it. How do I get them to share?
>>
>
> This looks like what used to happen when one used OSS for sound. I
> don't have that problem anymore when all programs now using alsa. How
> do you access the sound system?
>
> / Jonas

I am using Panda3d and it is using FMOD but they are switching to OpenAL.



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