Re: Sound [Quite Off topic]
Rebecca Ore <rebecca.ore(a)op.net> writes:
I'd been playing with Enlightenment and it appears that the
sound for
that mucked with my general sound configurations. XEmacs is okay now.
Just want to
"enlighten" you 'bout this. Enlightenment is using esd
(Enl. sound daemon) - which is the also the Gnome sound daemon -.
This is a centralised sound daemon. application are supposed to send
sound to it, so that it can mix sound altogether. This is the good
thing about this .... The bad thing is that it just keep /dev/audio
for itself, preventing any other application to use it, while running
(esd suppose all application will use esd for sound). The thing to do
to free /dev/audio while esd is running (asid killing esd :) ) is to
run 'esdctl standby' (and 'esdctl resume' to resume) for the moment...
This is rather unconvenient at the moment, but may be an optionnal esd
support in XEmacs would be fine for the future (and possibly help
junking all the native sound support (each system do it another way)
for a better uniform and abstract sound support -like esd is supposed
to offer- ).
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Seb C. (mailto:scarpeļ¼ atos-group.com) | Working for Atos at Lille, France
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