[clue-tech] Battling for control over the sound

[Michael Fierro]

On Mon September 7 2009 10:12:19 pm Todd A. Gibson wrote:
> bring up Pidgin, the sounds in that app work fine.  However if both
> are running then pidgin clobbers the sound from Firefox (perhaps
> because I start Pidgin after Firefox is running?)

What do you have Pidgin configured to use for sound? You have choices of esd, alsa and others. By default, Pidgin uses "autodetect." You can try changing this to ALSA to see if you get better results.

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