On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:59:58PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-01-29, Kirk Strauser penned: > > 1) The old-style /dev/dsp only allows one process to use it at a > > time. You couldn't listens to MP3s and still get audio alerts from > > other programs at the same time. > > See, I thought I remembered that, but without arts or esd running, I was > able to play an mp3 on xmms while playing a cd on grip. I heard both > songs coming through the speakers. Playing CDs is a special case. The audio goes direct from the CD drive to the sound card via a dedicated cable, and /dev/dsp is not involved. So you can play a CD, and any app that wants to use /dev/dsp will find it unused, and you will hear both noises at once, unless you mute one of them with your mixer. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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