Skype or Gizmoproject.com was: Re: Has Ubuntu ReplacedWindowson Your Box?

[Phillip Sc. Boegh]

> I have determined that the problem arises when other programs are
> using/have used the sound interface. After rebooting earlier today,
> Gizmo worked fine until I had launched other programs which use sound.
>
> For example, if realplay is running or even just open, the
> above-mentioned 'Failed to execute child process "audiowrapper"' error
> occurs. However, I have now exited realplay and am staring at the
> output of ps -e looking for any other program which may be hogging
> sound in the current session without luck -- I have also tried "lsof
> grep /dev/dsp" without determining the culprit. Any other suggestions
> on how to determine which programs are using sound would be most
> welcome.
Yes - sorry that I forgot this. Only one sound process is default allowed
to be running at the same time. There are somewhere a howto I remember -at
least when Ubuntu was Hoary - that tell you how to make use of more than
one sound at the sound. Maybe at ubuntuforums.org. Otherwise you have to
google.

> It seems that some Linux programs are better are sharing the sound
> interface than others...
The upper howto solves this problem.

Phillip