Re: gnome sound
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, dman wrote:
> 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.
ESD sucks. Use ALSA which allows multiple programs to open the audio
device.
-jwb
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