Comment 1 for bug 30578

Same here. I'm not even sure whether this is supposed to happen, since ALSA should be able to mix several audio streams. E.g. it is possible to run several mplayer instances with direct ALSA output parallel, as is running mplayer and esd. But ekiga only works when NO other application accessing sound is running (I have to stop mplayer and kill esd before I can run ekiga reliable).