Re: Sound Problem

[James Green <gnome cyberstorm demon co uk>]

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 :)

So, when I'm in a normal gnome session, got Enlightenment and esd giving
me the sounds of menu clicking, etc., and then I click on the provided
GQMpeg icon in Multimedia, then click play and mpg123 at the console
level tells me it can't open /dev/dsp, what should I do? I can't surely
use your line above then cause esd is already running ???

Besides, I thought the whole point of a desktop menu was to let the user
point and click to run apps, not generate this confusion and error?

-- 
James Green