Pulseaudio and other ALSA apps compete for hw access

[Daniel Holm]

In Intrepid I can only get sound from either Firefox or from Totem/Exaile. If I start Totem and/or Exaile for some film or music (they work side by side with each other) the sound from thoose to comes out from my speakers, and then I can start Firefox, but then I wont get some audio from it.

And if I start Firefox first the sound from anything else wont works.

Update:
It works like this.
Exaile works not Firefox
Totem works not Firefox
Exaile works not Wesnoth
Totem works not Wesnoth
Firefox works not Wesnoth
Firefox works not Exaile
Firefox works not Totem
Wesnoth works not Firefox
Wesnoth works not Totem
Wesnoth works not Exaile

The soundcard is a 82801H from lspci.
The kernel is 2.6.26-5-generic (same thing with 2.6.27.1/2)

Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10

pulseaudio:
  Installerad: 0.9.10-2ubuntu3
  Kandidat: 0.9.10-2ubuntu3
  Versionstabell:
 *** 0.9.10-2ubuntu3 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

daniel@daniel-laptop:~$ cat /proc/asound/modules
 0 snd_hda_intel
 1 snd_bt_sco

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. I have classified this bug as a bug in pulseaudio.

For future reference you might be interested to know that a lot of applications have bug reporting functionality built in to them. This can be accessed via the Report a Problem option in the Help menu for the application with which you are having an issue. You can learn more about this feature at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

[Daniel Holm (danielholm)]

Im sorry. I will be better at this in the future.
Thanks.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Make sure your System> Preferences> Sound> * are set to Autodetect except for Sound capture, which should be set to ALSA - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture.

Next, make sure you're using the most current versions of libasound2-plugins and flashplugin-nonfree.