esound in xfce?

[Tom Wesley]

On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 16:05, Jack Coates wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 06:49, Tom Wesley wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Since I moved to XFCE4 some time back I've had problems with xmms
> > stopping after a few traps and telling me that the sound device cannot
> > be opened, check the output plugin.  I've been using the esd plugin,
> > which seems to work.
> > The only other application that I use that produces regular sound is
> > gaim, but that should also be using the esd plugin.
> > 
> > If I don't use this, but tell xmms to use ALSA directly it seems to
> > work, but gaim cannot make any sound.
> > 
> > Does anyone know a way to make everything work happily?  I don't mind
> > running a sound daemon of some sort, although would prefer not to if
> > applications can talk directly to ALSA simultaneously.
> 
> I don't think that's possible. I use artsd because esd is staticky on my
> sound card, but same principles apply. Are you using the XFce mixer
> plugin? That's the only thing in XFce that should have anything to do
> with the sound card.
> 
> --
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> 
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> 

OK I have set xmms to alsa, gaim to auto and it's all working
perfectly.  I have no esd processes running, so does anyone know _how_
it's working?  I was under the impression that alsa would allow only one
program to access it at once.


-- 
Tom Wesley
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