On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, dman wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 06:03:42PM +0200, Frank Preut wrote: > | On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 10:51:33PM -0400, Duncan Findlay wrote: > ... > | > Two programs can't use your audio hardware at the same time. That's what > | > programs like esd try to solve. > | > > | > Esd mixes different programs' sound, so that they share :-) > | > > | > Try using mpg321 with the -o esd option. > ... > | but now: i did startx while mpg321 was running in the background and it > > yeah, mpg321 is using the hardware, then you fire up esd and it tries > to use the hardware ... bad things are bound to happen. > > Stop using mpg321 the way you are. Start up esd when you log in > (~/.bash_profile), then run mpg321 using esd. When you start X up esd > is already running so it shouldn't run again and you should have no > problems. ESD sucks. Use ALSA which allows multiple programs to open the audio device. -jwb
