On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 02:36:19PM +0100, Giacomo Mulas wrote: > Hello, I have a stupid problem which has probably been solved > already. I use the gnome desktop, with sound support. This means that esd is > started automatically at session startup. However, I also want to use some > programs (e.g. festival, skype, realplayer etc.) which are unable to use esd > for sound support but instead insist on directly using the sound device > directly (e.g. /dev/sound/dsp). They obviously fail if I try to use them > when the automatically started esd is running, since the sound device is > allocated by it. However, it IS possible to have the esd daemon release the > device after a few seconds it has been unused (i.e. with the "-as 2" esd > command line option). So, currently, after logging in with gnome I kill esd > and manually restart it with the "-as 2" option, and everything works fine. > The question: is it possible to tell the gnome session startup script that > it should use some user-defined options when starting esd? Second question: Hi, Take a look at the /etc/esound/esd.conf. You can put the '-as 2' to the spawn_options. Also take a look at the /usr/share/doc/esound-common/TIPS for other tips. > Please, CC: replies to me, I am not subscribed to this list > > Thanks in advance, > Giacomo Mulas > _________________________________________________________________ > > Giacomo Mulas <gmulas@ca.astro.it> > _________________________________________________________________ > > OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI CAGLIARI > Str. 54, Loc. Poggio dei Pini * 09012 Capoterra (CA) > > Tel. (OAC): +39 070 71180 248 Fax : +39 070 71180 222 > Tel. (UNICA): +39 070 675 4916 > _________________________________________________________________ > > "When the storms are raging around you, stay right where you are" > (Freddy Mercury) > _________________________________________________________________ > > -- > Il messaggio e' stato analizzato alla ricerca di virus o > contenuti pericolosi da MailScanner, ed e' > risultato non infetto. HTH, Simo -- :r ~/.signature
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