Re: multithreading sounds

[Michael Heldebrant <hmike@portalofevil.com>]

On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 03:26, Martin Kacerovsky wrote:
> Hi , 
> can you advice me how to get it working?
> I've done :
> o  install packages esound, esound-common, esound-clients
Yes.
> o  run esd as root
No.  esd will run automagically for each user that manages to get access
to the sound hardware.  root will block your user accounts from getting
it.

> x  but when i run e.g. mp3blaster it says failed to open audio device 
>    (ususal if other program locks /dev/dsp)
> x  imho the documentation is very poor

Try killing the root esd process and letting it auto spawn (and die) for
your user accounts.

--mike