Re: gnome sound server monopolizing alsa's audio

2003-12-18 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 09:56:37AM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: > On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 09:37, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > The only thing close to this is "esd -terminate" that kills the server after > > the last client exits. However that's not very useful for gnome, since > > it only plays a little

Re: gnome sound server monopolizing alsa's audio

2003-12-18 Thread Mark Roach
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 10:04, Dobai-Pataky Balint wrote: > On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 16:56, Mark Roach wrote: > i have this(followed the man pages): > > cat /etc/esound/esd.conf > [esd] > auto_spawn=1 > spawn_options=-terminate -nobeeps -as 5 > spawn_wait_ms=100 That doesn't work when esd is not aut

Re: gnome sound server monopolizing alsa's audio

2003-12-18 Thread Dobai-Pataky Balint
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 16:56, Mark Roach wrote: > What I usually do is move /usr/bin/esd to /usr/bin/esd.real and create a > new /usr/bin/esd containing: > > #!/bin/sh > exec /usr/bin/esd.real -as 5 $* > i have this(followed the man pages): cat /etc/esound/esd.conf [esd] auto_spawn=1 spawn_opti

Re: gnome sound server monopolizing alsa's audio

2003-12-18 Thread Mark Roach
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 09:37, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > The only thing close to this is "esd -terminate" that kills the server after > the last client exits. However that's not very useful for gnome, since > it only plays a little sound every once in a while. It'd have to run > the server each time

Re: gnome sound server monopolizing alsa's audio

2003-12-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 08:26:44AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 08:11:10AM -0500, Laurence J. Lane wrote: > > Any given program can hog a single DSP. > > I guess my question is, since the sound server isn't always playing > sounds, shouldn't it relinquish control between

Re: gnome sound server monopolizing alsa's audio

2003-12-18 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 08:11:10AM -0500, Laurence J. Lane wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 06:29:15AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > > Is this a known bug, and if so, is there a workaround? I tried > > searching the BTS, but I wasn't really sure which package to look for. > > Any given program

Re: gnome sound server monopolizing alsa's audio

2003-12-18 Thread Laurence J. Lane
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 06:29:15AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > Is this a known bug, and if so, is there a workaround? I tried > searching the BTS, but I wasn't really sure which package to look for. Any given program can hog a single DSP. Here are a few workarounds: A) hardware that support

gnome sound server monopolizing alsa's audio

2003-12-18 Thread Rob VanFleet
I'm currently using sid's Gnome 2.4 and alsa 0.9.8-3 with an Intel 82801EB integrated sound card (snd-intel8x0 driver). It works fine except for when I enable sound events in gnome. When gnome's sound server is running nothing gets to use the audio device save gnome itself. My event sounds work