Re: gnome sound server monopolizing alsa's audio

[rvf@linux.wku.edu ( Rob VanFleet)]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 09:56:37AM -0500, Mark Roach wrote:
> 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.

Thanks!  That did the trick.

Rob