(SOLVED) cannot get sound to work on multiple programs

im using the most current version of kde 4.2, and alsa with hda audio
snd_hda_intel
sound works great, but i cannot get it work on more than one program at at time. i tried pulseaudio, i tried esd and i blacklisted oss from my rc.conf.
every time i tried loading esd it would just fallback to my hda audio.
im not sure what to do now...i am running arch x64, may this have something to do with it?
any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Last edited by originalsurfmex (2009-06-05 02:01:45)

originalsurfmex wrote:
im using the most current version of kde 4.2, and alsa with hda audio
snd_hda_intel
sound works great, but i cannot get it work on more than one program at at time. i tried pulseaudio, i tried esd and i blacklisted oss from my rc.conf.
every time i tried loading esd it would just fallback to my hda audio.
im not sure what to do now...i am running arch x64, may this have something to do with it?
any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Don't use ESD and PulseAudio, the only thing they make are problems.
Do you have a ~/.asoundrc or a /etc/asound.conf? If yes, try to delete them.

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