Re: Sound Problem

[Ronald de Man <deman win tue nl>]

On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 09:41:10PM +0100, James Green wrote:
> In message <Pine.GSO.3.96.990405160337.18304A-100000@college.antioch-
> college.edu>, Josh Steiner <jsteiner@antioch-college.edu> writes
> >Gnome uses esd, the Enlightened Sound demon.  /dev/dsp can only ever be
> >used by one process at a time, so what esd does is mix down multiple
> >audio streams from separate programs and send that mixed sound to the
> >sound device. If your program does not support esd, simply type:
> >
> >> esddsp mpg123 blah.mp3
> >
> >that should do it :)
> 
> ESD sounds broken to me. It ought to be releasing /dev/dsp when I logout
> and clearly it isn't. I'll report it to the bugs site.

What do you mean exactly by logging out? Is esd still running after
you log out and back in?

Ronald