Re: esound locking sound

2006-09-13 Thread Carl Johnson
"Yuwen Dai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes. Some sound applications have options to use esd, i.e., mplayer. Some > don't have. In such case, you have to kill the esd. That's life :-) I just started esd with the command 'esd -as 2', which releases the audio device 2 seconds after any sound st

Re: esound locking sound

2006-09-12 Thread Yuwen Dai
Esound grabs /dev/dsp to manage it, so you can hear sounds fromdifferent apps concurrently.  For example, hear warning or alert sounds while playing mp3s or videos.On sarge, for ogg123, you'll need to put this in  /etc/libao.conf or~/.libao:default_driver=esdThat works for me.  See man libao.conf .

Re: esound locking sound

2006-09-03 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/03/2006 05:20 AM, garrone wrote: > Hi, > I am having some difficulty getting sound perfectly right. > > The esd or esound daemon is hogging /dev/dsp etc, causing > game sound and ogg123 to fail. I have to kill esd manually and > start the alsamixergui application and enable channels > b

esound locking sound

2006-09-03 Thread garrone
Hi, I am having some difficulty getting sound perfectly right. The esd or esound daemon is hogging /dev/dsp etc, causing game sound and ogg123 to fail. I have to kill esd manually and start the alsamixergui application and enable channels before games/music will play any sound. I'm trying t