Re: Esound and XEmacs

["Mark R. Bowyer" <Moredhel earthling net>]

>From: Daniel Pasco <dlpasco@yahoo.com>

>Well, I've finally got Gnome and Enlightenment installed and running
>(really cool stuff here, I'm enjoying it).  I downloaded XEmacs and
>compiled and installed it and it appears to not be an ESD friendly
>application whatsoever.  Any time it's supposed to make a sound you
>get the message "/dev/dsp is busy or unavailable."


Try starting "esd -as 1" before you start Enlightenment or Gnome in your X 
startup script.

This arguement sets esd to "go to sleep" and release the sound port after the 
given 1 seconds, and so other applications can access it.

You need a fairly recent esd for this to work.

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