On 2004-01-30, Pigeon penned:
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> Playing CDs is a special case. The audio goes direct from the CD drive
> to the sound card via a dedicated cable, and /dev/dsp is not involved.
> So you can play a CD, and any app that wants to use /dev/dsp will find
> it unused, and you will hear both noises at on
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:59:58PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On 2004-01-29, Kirk Strauser penned:
> > 1) The old-style /dev/dsp only allows one process to use it at a
> > time. You couldn't listens to MP3s and still get audio alerts from
> > other programs at the same time.
>
> See,
On 2004-01-29, Joey Hess penned:
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> A fairly large number of modern sounds cards and/or modern sound
> drivers can handle mixing multiple sounds themselves. My last three
> laptops have been capable of this.
>
Nice! Good to know.
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On 2004-01-29, Alex Malinovich penned:
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> I would suggest that if your soundcard is supported by ALSA, to use
> it. I've had much better results with ALSA than I have with OSS on
> all of my machines. It's a little bit more work to set it up, but well
> worth it.
>
Unfortunately, it's not suppor
Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> See, I thought I remembered that, but without arts or esd running, I was
> able to play an mp3 on xmms while playing a cd on grip. I heard both
> songs coming through the speakers. Well, I'm under the impression I had
> neither running. I seem to have gstreamer-artsd i
On 2004-01-29, Paul Morgan penned:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 09:46:48 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
>
>>
>> Fine, drag my shame out into the light of day.
>>
>> You know that red line that goes through the speaker icon on the
>> gnome panel? Yeah, apparently that means it's set to "mute," and
>> c
On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 13:59, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
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> Since you seem to actually understand all this stuff ...
>
> How does alsa fit into all of this? If I have working sound drivers in
> the kernel, should I care about alsa at all?
ALSA is a kernel-level driver for the sound device,
Incoming from Kirk Strauser:
> At 2004-01-29T17:40:49Z, "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > If you ever figure out what esd is there for, I'd like to know. 'Til now,
> > it seems everyone mentioning it is saying, "Once I killed esd, $blah
> > started working."
>
> Seriously? OK. ESD
On 2004-01-29, Kirk Strauser penned:
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> At 2004-01-29T17:40:49Z, "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>> If you ever figure out what esd is there for, I'd like to know. 'Til
>> now, it seems everyone mentioning it is saying, "Once I kill
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 09:46:48 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
>
> Fine, drag my shame out into the light of day.
>
> You know that red line that goes through the speaker icon on the gnome
> panel? Yeah, apparently that means it's set to "mute," and clicking it
> fixes the problem, and gets rid o
On 2004-01-29, John Hasler penned:
> Monique writes:
>> You know that red line that goes through the speaker icon on the
>> gnome panel? Yeah, apparently that means it's set to "mute," and
>> clicking it fixes the problem, and gets rid of the ugly line.
>
> Is this documented somewhere that a user
At 2004-01-29T17:40:49Z, "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you ever figure out what esd is there for, I'd like to know. 'Til now,
> it seems everyone mentioning it is saying, "Once I killed esd, $blah
> started working."
Seriously? OK. ESD, the Enlightenment Sound Daemon, is a serv
Monique writes:
> You know that red line that goes through the speaker icon on the gnome
> panel? Yeah, apparently that means it's set to "mute," and clicking it
> fixes the problem, and gets rid of the ugly line.
Is this documented somewhere that a user is likely to look? If not the
moron is th
Incoming from Monique Y. Herman:
>
> Fine, drag my shame out into the light of day.
:-)
I'd assumed your volume was just turned way down. That's often the
problem with sound mis-configuration.
If you ever figure out what esd is there for, I'd like to know. 'Til
now, it seems everyone mentio
On 2004-01-29, Kent West penned:
> Monique Y. Herman originally wrote:
>
>> What might cause xmms to go from audibly playing a song to seemingly
>> playing a song (progress bar moving, lines bouncing up and down as
>> the song plays) without producing any actual sound?
>
>
> Then she said to disreg
Monique Y. Herman originally wrote:
What might cause xmms to go from audibly playing a song to seemingly
playing a song (progress bar moving, lines bouncing up and down as the
song plays) without producing any actual sound?
Then she said to disregard that post, and wrote:
I am a moron. That is
> I am a moron. That is all.
Ah well.
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