Re: Gnome and Sound

[Mathieu Petit-Clair <darkmoon colba net>]

On 10 Mar 1999, Daniel A. Scholnick wrote:

> Ok.  I updated my /etc/ld.so.conf and that cleared up all of the problems finding the shared libraries.  Now everything is working fine using esddsp except for x11amp.
> 
> If I unset the SUID bit on x11amp, I can't start x11amp anymore.  I get an error that says:
> 
> opendir: Permission denied
> 
> [1]    Segmentation fault            esddsp x11amp
> 
> However, if I reset the SUID bit on x11amp, I can start up esddsp x11amp, but when i try to play mp3s, 
> it won't play.  it just runs through the playlist very quickly and then 
> stops.

x11amp is usually doing that to me when it "can't grab audio". Is there
anything in you .xsession-errors?

> Any ideas about what I am doing wrong?  All my other apps seem to work ok including gqmpeg.
> 
> Thanks again for your help...
> 
> -Dan
> 
> >Unset the SUID bit on x11amp and start it with the command "esddsp
> >x11amp", so that x11amp will play through esd.  Now any esd
> >aware applications can play sounds at the same time.  If you want two
> >applications to use the sound device at once and have their results mixed,
> >you require some sort of server to do it for you, which is what esd does.
> >
> >James Henstridge.
> >
> >--
> >Email: james@daa.com.au
> >WWW:   http://www.daa.com.au/~james/
> >
> >
> >On 10 Mar 1999, Daniel A. Scholnick wrote:
> >
> >> I don't know if this question is gnome specific, but I thought I'd try anyway.  Is there anyway to have more than one program play sound at the same time?  Right now, for example, if I'm using x11amp and I try to play sound using another program, it sa
> ys 
> >> the device is busy.  Is there any way around this?  At the moment, I'm starting up esd with the arguments '-as 2' so that Gnome doesn't take over all my sound.  Is there a way that everyone can share?
> >> 
> >> Thanks.
> >> 
> >> -Dan
> >> 
> >> btw:  I'm using RedHat 5.2 for i386.
> >> 
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Mathieu
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