On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:33:34AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> techlists wrote:
> >On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 23:46, Kent West wrote:
> >This seems to work well, but what about sound?  In my experience opening
> >up a second x session on a different Virt-terminal, the first session
> >has the sound card, and will not work on the second opened x-session.
> 
> I _think_ that newer/better sound cards can handle multiple requests, 

No.  The kerenel abstraction layer the applications encounter is what
matters: OSS can't handle multiple requests, ALSA AFAIK can.

> and/or that sound daemons like esound or artsd can handle it. But I'm 

Yes, only you'd have to configure them to accept requests from both
users in question.

HTH

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Jan Minar                   "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 9

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