[ltp] Sound Daemon

Joel Ebel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 11 Oct 2003 15:34:33 -0400


Both XMMS and GAIM have options telling them what to output sound to. 
either arts or esd should work fine, but you need to tell both gaim and 
XMMS to use it.  If one is directly using the DSP device, then nothing 
else will be able to.

Joel

Dan Borello wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 14:11, Brad Langhorst wrote:
> 
>>On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 15:04, Dan Borello wrote:
>>
>>>What are people using for sound playback?  I am loading the i810_audio
>>>module fine.  Only one application can control the sound at a time.  
>>>
>>>I would like to be able to have gaim and xmms going at the same time.  I
>>>tried esd but it freezes and needs restarted at least once a day.  Are
>>>there other options?  What does everyone eles use?
>>
>>i'm using arts - works fine for me
>>
>>brad
> 
> 
> 
> I guess I should mention I am running gnome.  I will check it out but my
> impression was that arts was a KDE thing.
> 
> dan
>