Re: gnome sound server monopolizing alsa's audio

[Mark Roach <mrroach@okmaybe.com>]

On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 09:37, Bijan Soleymani wrote:

> The only thing close to this is "esd -terminate" that kills the server after
> the last client exits. However that's not very useful for gnome, since
> it only plays a little sound every once in a while. It'd have to run
> the server each time it wants to play a sound. It would be better off
> just trying to grab /dev/dsp whenever it needs to.

What I usually do is move /usr/bin/esd to /usr/bin/esd.real and create a
new /usr/bin/esd containing:

#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/esd.real -as 5 $*

the other thing you should do is get the libesd-alsa0 instead of the oss
version.
-- 
Mark Roach