Re: gnome and ESD (Was: Re: Where is gnome-audio RPM?)

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

Scott Tyson wrote:
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> I ahve had prblems with esd.  IF I run esd I cannot use freeamp.  If I kill esd then freeamp plays fine.  Any way to get program s like freeamp and esd to co-exist together.  I also do not use Enlightment I use Windowmaker.

A couple of possibilities:

1) use mpg123

"make linux-esd", and it will support esd natively.

2) esddsp freeamp

This will attempt to reroute freeamp's access of /dev/dsp to esd.

3) esdctl off ; freeamp ; esdctl on

This will tell esd to release the sound card for use by other 
apps. You won't get any sounds out of esd (e.g. gnome sounds) 
while you're playing freeamp, though.

4) got source? will patch. =)

Any program with a decent /dev/dsp abstraction layer (i.e. 
designed for use by multiple OSes) can be ported to use esd 
natively in about an hour.  If you send me a url to the 
source code, I can attempt to do this myself...

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