Re: Gnomish Thoughts

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

Gregory McLean wrote:

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> > 3) Why can't I play sounds? Does esound grab the devices forever?

> Esound does grab the audio devices there are a couple of ways around this.
> esddsp is a wrapper of sorts that will get a non esd sound app to work with esd
> running, IMHO this should be IN esd and not some seperate thing.
> or esdctl standby (or some such)

You *could* set the LD_PRELOAD environment variable in 
your X startup environment, and get the same effect as 
using esddsp for all programs started from that X session.  
The esddsp script is simply a clean way to start 
non-esd-aware audio applications, and doesn't force *all* 
your programs to use the rerouted open/close/ioctl calls.  
Having the option in a separate script allows for greater 
flexibility, IMHO.

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