Re: gnome sound

[Duncan Findlay <daf@daf.ca.eu.org>]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 03:21:13PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> > BTW, I don't know much about ALSA, but it is not possible to have alsa
> > _and_ other stuff at the same time (I tried so I could dabble with it
> > and see what it is about).
> 
> This is not true.  ALSA provides OSS emulation.  All of your ALSA and OSS
> applications can use the sound device at the same time.  Many applications
> (ESD, XMMS, vlc, Xine, arts) can be configured to use either the
> (superior) ALSA interface or the old OSS interface.
> 
> > A nice feature of esd, though I haven't really tried it yet, is the
> > ability to play sound remotely.  This would be cool to have the laptop
> > on the LAN with real speakers plugged in but playing the mp3s from my
> > workstation.
> 
> This is a nice feature!  Again I wish to repeat that ESD works fine with
> ALSA, and ALSA allows as many applications as you want to use the sound
> device.
> 
> -jwb

ALSA does not work well with ESD, at least with the most recent versions of
ALSA.  I tried to patch it, but my results aren't pretty :-(  ALSA only
allows as many applications as you want to use the sound device if you have
a specific sound card or driver.

-- 
Duncan Findlay