Re: Sharing sound between users

[glenn <gdavy@tpg.com.au>]

woohoo - so I went and got my fancy little $100 sound card (live was
$80, so I got the audigy se for another 20) - an everything works - so
NOW... 
I've renabled my onboard i810_audio/Ac97 chip and aliased i810_audio to
sound-slot-1 and sound-slot-0 to emu10k1, I seem to get no erors. 
I assume sound-slot-0 = /dev/dsp0 and sound-slot-1=/dev/dsp1? However
only /dev/dsp is symbolically linked anywhere (/dev/sound/{device}). 

I cant figure out how to direct sound to/from either card. I want my
vmware to only used the onboard where I can put a mic/headset on and use
language learning programs. In vmare I can select either /dev/dsp or
/dev/dsp1, but in either case it uses the audigy.

Can anyone suggest how I can shuffle sound to/from either soundcard, say
from the command line? 
(both cards show up in gnomes sound mixer)

Thanks
Glenn
On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 17:56, 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.