William> karlheg(a)bittersweet.inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom) William> writes: 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=libesddsp.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?