Hello, I have a stupid problem which has probably been solved
already. I use the gnome desktop, with sound support. This means that esd is
started automatically at session startup. However, I also want to use some
programs (e.g. festival, skype, realplayer etc.) which are unable to use esd
for sound support but instead insist on directly using the sound device
directly (e.g. /dev/sound/dsp). They obviously fail if I try to use them
when the automatically started esd is running, since the sound device is
allocated by it. However, it IS possible to have the esd daemon release the
device after a few seconds it has been unused (i.e. with the "-as 2" esd
command line option). So, currently, after logging in with gnome I kill esd
and manually restart it with the "-as 2" option, and everything works fine.
The question: is it possible to tell the gnome session startup script that
it should use some user-defined options when starting esd? Second question:
if it isn't, to what package should I file a wishlist bug for this? Third
question: any other solution to have both sound support in gnome and the
sound device available when unused?
Please, CC: replies to me, I am not subscribed to this list
Thanks in advance,
Giacomo Mulas
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