Re: Sound Problem
- From: James Green <gnome cyberstorm demon co uk>
- To: gnome-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Sound Problem
- Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 21:41:10 +0100
In message <Pine.GSO.3.96.990405160337.18304A-100000@college.antioch-
college.edu>, Josh Steiner <jsteiner@antioch-college.edu> writes
>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 :)
ESD sounds broken to me. It ought to be releasing /dev/dsp when I logout
and clearly it isn't. I'll report it to the bugs site.
--
James Green
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