Re: gnome sound
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 06:03:42PM +0200, Frank Preut wrote:
| On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 10:51:33PM -0400, Duncan Findlay wrote:
...
| > 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.
...
| but now: i did startx while mpg321 was running in the background and it
yeah, mpg321 is using the hardware, then you fire up esd and it tries
to use the hardware ... bad things are bound to happen.
Stop using mpg321 the way you are. Start up esd when you log in
(~/.bash_profile), then run mpg321 using esd. When you start X up esd
is already running so it shouldn't run again and you should have no
problems.
| sent the whole thing to hell. as said before i had to *unplug* my
| computer to stop it from playing the same half second of the mp3 over
| and over again, and besides that, the screen went black and i couldn't
| do anything else anymore. is that considered normal behaviour? or should
| i try to file a bug against esd? i understand that it's kind of stupid
| that i can start multiple mpg321 instances which then play
| simultaneously but this behaviour of taking the whole system down is
| unacceptable, if you ask me.
It's probably more of an issue with the kernel driver. When esd
starts and tries to use the hardware while the hardware is in use, the
driver doesn't handle that well and ends up killing the kernel
(because it is the kernel).
HTH,
-D
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