| AJackson 2007-07-21, 1:12 pm |
| On Jul 16, 5:26 am, sk8r-365 <sk8r-...@sk8r.debian.etch.invalid.org>
wrote:
> OK, so someone posted here a question as how to have both Gnome
> sound events, via ESD, and then allow ALSA to do it's thing. There
> appeared tonight an answer in the Debian Forum.
>
> Here's the message (and this works, too):
>
> [quote]
>
> radamis Posted: 2007-07-15 16:38
>
> Adding: Code: default_options=-as 1
>
> to /etc/esound/esd.conf helped me considerably. ESD by default takes
> control of the sound system and won't let anything else use it. The
> above line tells ESD that after 1 second of being idle release the
> sound system for others to use. It didn't help with the 1-3 second
> delay between the audio app and the speakers when the audio was going
> through esd(made watching movies a little weird).
>
> [/quote]
>
> HTH whoever it was asking about this.
> --
> sk8r-365
>
> http://goodbye-microsoft.com/
Hmmm, if you see to that package libesd-alsa0 is installed instead of
libesd0, it should work.
The package libesd0 made esd to use OSS (old sound system), which
block sound to only one application at a time. libesd-alsa0 use alsa
instead, which can mix sound from different sources.
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