Re: Sharing sound between users
On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 07:41, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> ken@fiona-victor.com writes:
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> > 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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