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Re: esd taking over /dev/dsp



>>>>> "David" == David Morse <svref@yahoo.com> writes:

David> [was: stupid sound permission problem] Aha!  The real problem is
David> that when user david runs ogg123 its from within X, where "esd
David> -nobeeps" is an fuser of /dev/dsp.  Uh, what's the debian way of
David> allowing these things to co-exist peacefully?

Not the Debian way, but you can use esddsp to make other programs play
through esd instead of trying to talk to the sound card directly.

esddsp ogg123 ...

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