Re: Sound Problem

[Josh Steiner <jsteiner antioch-college edu>]

Gnome uses esd, the Enlightened Sound demon.  /dev/dsp can only ever be
used by one process at a time, so what esd does is mix down multiple
audio streams from separate programs and send that mixed sound to the
sound device. If your program does not support esd, simply type:

> esddsp mpg123 blah.mp3

that should do it :)

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Joshua W. H. Steiner - jsteiner@antioch-college.edu - http://joschi.base.org

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> Hi all,
> 
> Everything gnome-wise is installed as per default except it is told to
> use Enlightenment rather than gnome-wm.
> 
> Problem: Before I run startx to get Gnome/E sound works fine. When I run
> Gnome/E I get Gnome sound samples but mpg123 reports that /dev/dsp can't
> be accessed or something. I log-out and try again and the same error
> occurs. I haven't done a thing to the sound bits, and even running
> sndconfig after closing Gnome doesn't fix it; I have to reboot (even
> logging out completely doesn't fix it).
> 
> Any ideas?
> -- 
> James Green
> 
> 
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