On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:02:24PM -0400, D-Man uttered: > Yes "Enlightened Sound Daemon". I don't have a sound card in this > box, but I used to have one and it could only play 1 sound at a time. > So if I had WinAmp going, and I was working on a presentation in > PowerPoint, I wouldn't notice that ppt had a default sound to go with > the animation. I found out when I started the presentation in class > (true story!). When you use ESD, it controls the sound card (/dev/dsp > usually, I think). Then apps that want to play a sound request it > from esd, and esd mixes all the wavs together so that your sound card > plays all of them. Reallly cool! I guess you don't have it > installed. Try the search on file names in packages. > Some sound cards do this as well. Moving from my ES1371-based card to a SB Live, I found multiple sounds could play at once, which was quite nifty, but it makes it hard when you start Quake2, and go "Do'h! I left XMMS running!" :-)
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Steve
"I'm a sysadmin because I couldn't beat a blind monkey in a coding contest."
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