Re: GTK2 and LD_PRELOAD (and artsdsp)



On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 08:50, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
> I have a problem: artsdsp works fine on command-line apps and XMMS (GTK1?)...  
> however in all GTK2-apps that I've tried (the GNOME sound recorder, 
> RealPlayer 10, Kino 0.7) it doesn't. Why? (The reason I'm asking here is the 
> that it is a clear tendency in the GTK2 apps failing).
> 
> Background: artsdsp (and esddsp, which has the same problems) is a wrapper 
> making a /dev/dsp device so that applications only supporting the OSS sound 
> interface output their sound to arts. It does this through setting LD_PRELOAD 
> to load fake system libraries that intercept any communication with /dev/dsp.

I think you are barking up the wrong tree. Most likely the problems you
are having are simply that the GTK2 apps are newer, and more likely to
be using modern sound APIs like ALSA, rather than writing directly
to /dev/dsp.

Regards,
						Owen

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