On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 02:14:04AM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 9:17 AM, Samuel Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I have been using obsd as my primary desktop for a while now and i have a > >> question about the sound system , is there a way to play > >> two sounds at the same time ? Example watching youtube videos with opera > >> and playing some music in the background with mpd or xmms . > >> thank you for your time ; ) > >> > >> > > > > > > Hey Samuel, > > > > Somehow I missed seeing this message of yours: > > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/openbsd-misc/2007/10/31/374006 > > that's disappointing to me because I reaaaally want to get mpd to > > route through esd, but if I change my config file from > > > > audio_output { > > type "ao" > > name "Libao Audio Device" > > } > > > > to > > audio_output { > > type "ao" > > driver "esd" > > name "esd" > > } > > > > I get `"esd" is not a valid ao driver at line 112` > > > > I also tried > > $ cat /etc/libao.conf > > default_driver=esd > > > > but it doesn't run esd. So did you get it working? And if so: how? > > > > I just noticed that there is a libao-esd package. I installed that and > now mpd does indeed try to spawn an esd instance. However, there are > problems: > -since mpd seems to chroot itself into /var/empty it needs write > access there to put a .esd_auth file (but /var/empty has to be 755 > root:wheel or sshd won't let me log in). I temporarily switched the > permissions and then back; once it had created the .esd_auth file it > ran fine until I rebooted. > -even once esd is running, it doesn't allow other applications through > it at the same time (thus negating the point of having a sound server) > > Sooo I'm just wondering how you went about this.
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