Re: how to run esound and another audio program?

[raster redhat com]

On 30 Sep, torben fjerdingstad shouted:
->  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?

no = there is no signal esoudn can get that say "somoen else tried to
open /dev/dsp". kernel will deny the open(); for the other app.

->  Would that be a bad idea?
->  

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