[wplug] ALSA hog

[Jonathan S Billings]

I use a sound daemon (either esd in gnome, or arts in kde) for my sound
programs, like xmms.  That way, the one program that has a lock on
/dev/dsp is the sound daemon, and the other processes talk to it.


On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 12:40, Henry Umansky wrote:
> Does anyone know how or why XMMS locks /dev/dsp?  Whenever XMMS is running, 
> nothing else seems to be able to use ALSA.  Does anyone else experience 
> this sorta problem.  I might just have to join yaml (yet another mailing 
> list).
> 
> Henry Umansky
> University of Pittsburgh
> Computing Services and Systems Development
> hmust2 [at] pitt [dot] edu
> (412) 624 -4357
> _______________________________________________
> wplug mailing list
> wplug at wplug.org
> http://www.wplug.org/mailman/listinfo/wplug
-- 
Jonathan S Billings <billings at negate.org>
TSFNKP, President and Chief Lackey