On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 08:55:29AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> - Ryan said it may break commercial apps. I'm really not too worried
>about that. First, if an app uses the socket directly instead of
>using libesd, it is broken by design. Second, most commercial apps
>I know use OSS and
Hi Matt!
Matt Zimmerman [2005-08-18 15:32 -0700]:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 03:13:41PM -0700, Ryan Murray wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:23:19PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > > I patched esound to work with several parallel instances, so that
> > > several logged in users can get sound:
> >
Hi Matt!
Matt Zimmerman [2005-08-18 16:02 -0700]:
> > With your solution, if the first user leaves anything playing sound (game,
> > music player, etc) running, additional users won't be able to get any sound.
>
> That isn't true with dmix.
It is, unfortunately:
$ sudo -u joe aplay /usr/share/s
Hi Ryan, hi Matt!
I read your discussion. I thought quite a while about possible
options, so here are my thoughts:
(1) Start a global system esd.
- esound was designed as a per-user process, not system-wide. Every
user can and should be able to use her own default device, which is
not pos
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 04:59:21PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > The supplied patch has a comment about how -as is used by default so that
> > other users can actually use the device. If it's not true with dmix, then
> > why the change?
>
> Because dmix doesn't work for everyone yet.
I think
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 04:29:23PM -0700, Ryan Murray wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 04:02:37PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > Yes, as I said:
> > >
> > > > > What might be better for the default Debian permissions setup is to
> > > > > make the socket for public use by anyone in the audio g
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 04:02:37PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > Yes, as I said:
> >
> > > > What might be better for the default Debian permissions setup is to
> > > > make the socket for public use by anyone in the audio group.
>
> I don't think that addresses all of the issues. If the firs
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 03:55:27PM -0700, Ryan Murray wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 03:32:34PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > With modern GNOME, it's quite convenient to have multiple users logged in at
> > the console and switch between them, as in Windows XP, and that is the
> > scenario tha
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 03:32:34PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> With modern GNOME, it's quite convenient to have multiple users logged in at
> the console and switch between them, as in Windows XP, and that is the
> scenario that we would like to provide for.
>
> Do you know of a better way to m
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 03:13:41PM -0700, Ryan Murray wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:23:19PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > I patched esound to work with several parallel instances, so that
> > several logged in users can get sound:
>
> This breaks third party commercial applications. I have
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:23:19PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> I patched esound to work with several parallel instances, so that
> several logged in users can get sound:
This breaks third party commercial applications. I have no intention of doing
this. The socket name really can't be changed.
Hi!
I patched esound to work with several parallel instances, so that
several logged in users can get sound:
esound (0.2.36-1ubuntu4) breezy; urgency=low
.
* Make esd work for several users in parallel (Ubuntu #3671, Debian
#147532):
- util.c, esd_get_socket_dirname(): Append the u
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