Re: Esound and XEmacs

["Yo 'Ric Dude" <ericmit ix netcom com>]

Robert,

Could you update us on the xemacs patch for 
esd-awareness? I seem to have lost my copy.

"Mark R. Bowyer" wrote:
> 
> >From: Daniel Pasco <dlpasco@yahoo.com>
> 
> >Well, I've finally got Gnome and Enlightenment installed and running
> >(really cool stuff here, I'm enjoying it).  I downloaded XEmacs and
> >compiled and installed it and it appears to not be an ESD friendly
> >application whatsoever.  Any time it's supposed to make a sound you
> >get the message "/dev/dsp is busy or unavailable."
> 
> Try starting "esd -as 1" before you start Enlightenment or Gnome in your X
> startup script.
> 
> This arguement sets esd to "go to sleep" and release the sound port after the
> given 1 seconds, and so other applications can access it.
> 
> You need a fairly recent esd for this to work.
> 
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