Re: Sound problem with ESD, ALSA and OSS emulation
First of all: OFF-TOPIC
Second: use esddsp (esound-clients package), though I'm aware it doesn't
work with for instance the firefox flash plugin.
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Stefano Salvi wrote:
> I'm running SID, with kernels from the 2.6 branch (updated as they
> became available) and ALSA with OSS emulation compiled in the kernel,
> and run Gnome.
> I have some applications that use OSS /dev/dsp0 (for example Java
> Firefox plugin or skype).
> If I leave the "sound daemon" enabled these applications produce no
> sound (and skype refuses to terminate).
> If I disable the sound daemon (from the control panel), I can launch a
> program at a time, but it plays sound regularly.
> In my sytem is installed libesd-alsa0 and not libesd0.
> It seems that /dev/dsp0 gets locked by any open (and this explains why I
> can launch a program at a time with OSS interface) but seems also that
> ESD locks the same interface.
> Any suggestion to get all this stuff running together?
> Stefano Salvi
Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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