On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 03:21:13PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > BTW, I don't know much about ALSA, but it is not possible to have alsa > > _and_ other stuff at the same time (I tried so I could dabble with it > > and see what it is about). > > This is not true. ALSA provides OSS emulation. All of your ALSA and OSS > applications can use the sound device at the same time. Many applications > (ESD, XMMS, vlc, Xine, arts) can be configured to use either the > (superior) ALSA interface or the old OSS interface. > > > A nice feature of esd, though I haven't really tried it yet, is the > > ability to play sound remotely. This would be cool to have the laptop > > on the LAN with real speakers plugged in but playing the mp3s from my > > workstation. > > This is a nice feature! Again I wish to repeat that ESD works fine with > ALSA, and ALSA allows as many applications as you want to use the sound > device. > > -jwb
ALSA does not work well with ESD, at least with the most recent versions of ALSA. I tried to patch it, but my results aren't pretty :-( ALSA only allows as many applications as you want to use the sound device if you have a specific sound card or driver. -- Duncan Findlay
