Re: two sound questions

[marshal@h9.dion.ne.jp]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Peri <ispleen@mac.com> writes:

    Thomas> Two questions: a) Now that I have working sound (thanks!),
    Thomas> I've noticed that when something's playing in xmms, other
    Thomas> sounds (like terminal beeps, and message sounds in gaim)
    Thomas> don't come through.  If xmms isn't playing, they come
    Thomas> through fine.  Is there a way to fix this?

I think this would be because xmms is taking control of the sound
system, via /dev/dsp or something like that.  One option is to use esd
which will mix the various sound outputs into one sound, with a little
loss in quality, they say.  But I've never really noticed too much
difference.


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