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Re: Sharing sound between users



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ken@fiona-victor.com writes:

> On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
>> glenn <gdavy@tpg.com.au> writes:
>>
>> > If someone logs into gnome -they own the esd and no one else can get in
>> > and use sound, even after they log out, unless someone manually kills
>> > esd deamon. If there are two X sessions running - only one can access
>> > sound - Sound seems easier in kernel 2.6 so I'm hoping I can finally
>> > solve this problem - any help... please?
>>
>> Get a sound card that allows more than one stream to play at the same
>> time.  Yours does not.  I don't know what cards do other than mine
>> does.  It's a Creative SoundBlaster Live! 128.
> I have alwasys wanted this feature as well. Is it possible to achive this
> with a better sound card?

Yes.  Like I said, I use a Creative SoundBlaster Live! 128 and I can
do it.  Any quality sound card will support it.  I'm not trying to be
elitist here, but the ability to get a SBL! 128 for about $20 these
days really should be forcing AC97 and other similarly craptastic
chipsets to justify their existence.

> In windows my soundcard can play several
> simultanius streams but not in linux with oss/alsa.

Windows does something like what ARTS or ESD does for KDE and Gnome
environments.

> As I understad this I would with a better soundcard? Is this
> correct?

Yes.  By the way, what's the frequency?

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