Re: Sound Problem

[jg pa dec com (Jim Gettys)]

> From: Ronald de Man <deman@win.tue.nl>
> Resent-From: gnome-list@gnome.org
> Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 23:06:01 +0200
> To: gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: Sound Problem
> -----
> On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 09:41:10PM +0100, James Green wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> What do you mean exactly by logging out? Is esd still running after
> you log out and back in?
> 

I've certainly seen esd running after being logged out...

I believe I reported this some time ago.
				- Jim