Re: VMWare, ESD and XMMS?

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 12:42, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> 
>   I'm running a debian sid box.  I can load up gnome+sawfish and play music
> just fine.  When I try to load sound in VMWare it says the device, /dev/dsp
> is busy.  If I do an "esdctl off" sound becomes available to the VMWare 
> again.  I tried "esdctl unlock" but no luck.  I'm using the OSS drivers
> built into the kernel.

Sounds like you might have a cruddy sound card driver that only allows
one application to use the sound device at a time.  Many more up-to-date
drivers should allow multiple processes to access the device; which
sound driver are you using?

Sean Etc.

> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> 
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