Re: Sound not working
Remaining problem that I have is that if I enable the Gnome Sound
Server to get sound working under gnome that Rhythmbox is refusing to
play because /dev/dsp is busy. If I disable the Gnome Sound server,
Rhythmbox plays fine. However if I start up xmms and also play a file
there it doesn't work.(I also see this in Fedora) It seems that I can
only play sound from one source. In windooz the card plays fine with
multiple sources.
Your applications need to be esd-aware. I don't know anything about
Rhythmbox, but xmms either is or can be made esd-aware; Right-click
within xmms, choose Options, then Preferences, then Output plugin.
Thanks for your help it pointed me in the right direction :)
Rhythmbox uses the gstreamer framework which can use all the popular
sound servers. Out of the box (or apt-get) it gets configured to use oss
and that conflicts with esd. I now set it to use esd by specifying it in
gconf ( system/gstreamer/default ). gst-player the official gstreamer
player now works correctly. Rhythmbox comes up with an error message
that it currently cannot use esd when sound events in gnome are enabled.
(So I guess I have to wait for that)
Jaap
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