I've noticed that in both installs of Hardy, of each my desktop and laptop, I can only have one program running sound at once. For example, if I'm listening to music in Rhythmbox, I can't hear the sound of a clip on YouTube via Firefox. Both programs run perfectly, however, individually. If Firefox was the first program to open, Rhythmbox refuses to play a track (reminicent of Windows Media Player when it cannot detect a sound card if that helps). This general, one-at-a-time, rule applies for nearly all programs, but there are a couple of exceptions such as Pidgin. In that program, the sounds of a new message will not play, but the sound of a log on will... I've been looking into PulseAudio, but I don't seem to be able to find anything that helps my situation. Anybody have a solution?
Code:
aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: CONEXANT Analog [CONEXANT Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: Conexant Digital [Conexant Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Troy.
Note that this is an HP Pavilion dv9013ca laptop. Hardy is so far the only *buntu that runs so far, but I don't attribute that to the problem because it does the same thing on my desktop system (custom build).
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