On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 02:13:30AM +0200, Frank Preut wrote: > okay, i've had it.. gnome just completely froze my system.. i had to > unplug it! just because i had mpg321 running in the background.. i have > no idea why that is, it works beautifully in kde but idon't like kde as > much as i do gnome but this sound issue is really bugging me.. what is > it in gnome that takes over everything related to sound? sound in gnome > is provided by esd, right? how can tell it fsck'ing leave leave mpg321 > alone and share with it peacefully? i'm willing to rtfm, but i don't > really know where to start, any ponters greatly appreciated.. > > thanks, > frank. Two programs can't use your audio hardware at the same time. That's what programs like esd try to solve. Esd mixes different programs' sound, so that they share :-) Try using mpg321 with the -o esd option. -- Duncan Findlay
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