Skype and Teamspeak finally coexisting

I use Skype for telephony, and Teamspeak for some online games (mostly Ticket to Ride). Until now, I’ve never gotten them to peacefully coexist on my 64-bit Linux system, despite the use of the ALSA OSS emulation library.

Now, with Fedora 7, it finally works, though I’m not sure what changed. I use this little wrapper script to invoke Teamspeak:

#!/bin/sh
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/teamspeak/TeamSpeak2RC2
aoss -32 /usr/local/teamspeak/TeamSpeak2RC2/TeamSpeak.bin

Update:

It appears that I spoke too soon.  Skype and Teamspeak seem to fight over which owns the microphone, and Teamspeak wins.  While Teamspeak is running, Skype (native ALSA version) gets no microphone input.  I expected that the microphone audio would go to both.  Sigh.

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