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From: Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg at bittersweet.inetarena.com>
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Subject: Re: esd client env vars (Was: Re: More ESD ./configure bogosity)
Date: 2000-01-20 11:54:24 -0800
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In-Reply-To: wmperry@aventail.com's message of "20 Jan 2000 14:30:55 -0500"

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>>>>> "William" =3D=3D William M Perry <wmperry(a)aventail.com> writes:

    William> karlheg(a)bittersweet.inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom)
    William> writes:
    >>  From the `esound.sgml':
    >> =

    >> <sect1 id=3D"environment-variables"> <title>Environment
    >> Variables</title>

    William> I think this should be visible from lisp with something
    William> like `esd-speaker', because I might want to switch back
    William> and forth during the course of running XEmacs.  And
    William> should the connection to esd be persistent?  Right now it
    William> looks like it is opening/closing the connection for every
    William> sound.

 Hmm.  I wonder if useing `setenv' before playing a sound works.  I've
 not tried it.

 I think that it's not persistent so that the `esd' can go idle and
 release the sound device.  There's an `esd' switch to set an idle
 timeout.  If it were not for that, `realplay' would not work.  (I
 tried to wrap realplay in a script that does a
 `LD_PRELOAD=3Dlibesddsp.so:libesd.so', but that didn't work right.  It
 works for a few seconds, and then hangs.

    William> This isn't a big deal for me anymore, since I have a
    William> SoundBlaster Live! in the new machine, and it mixes
    William> everything together for me.  No more need for esd. :)

 How does that work?  I should look into that card...  I want to buy a
 new sound card soon; I've got an aging Pro Audio Studio Spectrum
 (EISA).  When the drives `fsck' at boot, the sound card plays a
 reeling in a fish noise.  The microphone port is blown too.

    William> Now, if XEmacs were only multithreaded to take advantage
    William> of all the CPUs. :)

 Someday maybe it will be?  Or a thing much like XEmacs re-written
 almost from scratch...  A Guile-XEmacs-GTK maybe.  How many CPU's do
 you have?

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