Re: how to run esound and another audio program?

[torben fjerdingstad <unitfj-gnome tfj rnd uni-c dk>]

On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 03:17:00AM +0000, Elliot Lee wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Sep 1998 18:34:16 -0700 (PDT), Eric Guenterberg
> <mavpion@fire.csua.ucla.edu> wrote: 
> 
> >Is there any way to run other audio programs and esound at the same time?
> >When I try to run amp it tells me that /dev/audio is in use. 
> 
> Two things to do:
> 	For programs that can be fixed to use esound, fix them to use esound.
> 	In the meantime, you can do
> 		esdctl standby
> 		runamp
> 		esdctl resume

Would it be possible to make that happen automagically, when a program
tries to use the audio device?

Would that be a bad idea?

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