[pygame] Freezing problem - another angle.......

[Matt Bailey <mattb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, here's what's going on, heh.............I've figured out that sound is 
definitely the problem. By removing /dev/dsp (which is just a link to /dev/
dsp0), Pygame apps run fine, but no sound obviously. I have two soundcards in 
my system, maybe that's causing problems? One is an Ensoniq PCI card, the 
other is my nforce2 motherboard's onboard sound. I installed nvidia's modules 
for my motherboard. Normally I use the PCI card for sound, but since I 
installed the drivers, it seems the nvidia onboard card is now "default". 
Strangely, while alsaconf shows both cards, alsamixer shows just the PCI 
card. Now that the onboard card is "default", attempting to init pygame 
produces the following error instead of hanging up:

 Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "war907.py", line 1525, in ?
    boom = pygame.mixer.Sound('boom3.wav')
pygame.error: mixer system not initialized

/dev/mixer points to /dev/mixer0, and /dev/dsp points to /dev/dsp0. Pointing 
to mixer1/dsp1 doesn't work at all.

I can play other audio just fine. It seems like maybe Pygame is still trying 
to use the PCI card, maybe......? My old module for the PCI card is es1371, 
which I can't load now for some reason (the dreaded "unresolved symbols" 
error), even if I first remove the nvsound module (module for onboard sound).

How do I "tell" Pygame which sound device to use? See, I was thinking maybe 
having the onboard soundcard in the system with no drivers might be throwing 
off pygame, so I installed drivers for it. Now I need to make sure of which 
card pygame is trying to use. FWIW, sound in other apps is now using the 
onboard sound card (and I can't seem to switch soundcards :P  ).

	-Matt Bailey