On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:02:55 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jaap Haitsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > OK my way is definetly not the right way. If I enable the gnome sound > > server I get sounds when I open a window or such but then players like > > rhytmbox complain that /dev/dsp is temporarily unavailable :( > > That's normal. You need to set other players to use ESD (Gnome's > sound server), or just get a real sound card, in which you'll gain the > ability to play multiple streams at the same time.
I think there's a third option as well -- telling ESD not to hang on
to /dev/dsp when it doesn't need it, so that software that uses ESD
and software that doesn't can coexist (using the -as argument for
esd).
-c
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