Hi Mike, On 6/19/05, Mike S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please correct me if I am wrong, but in my searching I have concluded > that sound will not work in anything in gnome, unless you have the > proper device set in Desktop > Preferences > Multimedia Systems > Selector, which I gather sets the audio mode for all things inside gnome > that use gstreamer (Which is all, I think). As I said before ESD is the > only output that I can get to work. Still looking, but what I have read > so far says that ESD causes a hell of a processor load, though I have > not noticed anything, but I don't tinker with commands that high level, > I have also read that esd is pretty good in that it can take multiple > programs and send all things to the card, which is what I want, because > I ran kde and could only have one application use sound at a time.
KDE runs artsd, also a sound daemon, which mixes sound on the fly. And it consumes a lot of processor cycles too. It's annoying. > Another thing I am trying to find is a way to get esd to share the sound > card. I read a while back that it was possible for you to set the > daemon so that it would "share" the given audio device, and I am > thinking that that would (maybe) help in things like mol and such that > need OSS or alsa. Search for dmix. Using it, you can set up a very simple ALSA configuration (just a file .asoundrc on your home directory) which allows for multiple sound outputs. Also, it is quite inexpensive in terms of CPU. Cheers, Alex.
