Re: Gnome sound server

2007-01-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue, 2007-30-01 at 17:39 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > How does one use dmix, or is that used when the sound server is > > disabled? > > First of all, dmix, sound servers (esd and so on) are all used if your > card can't do hardware mixing. If it can do hardware mixing, you don't > need to

Re: Gnome sound server

2007-01-30 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 07:49 -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > I don't really need it. I have always left the sound server off in > gnome so as not to create problems. I'm just trying to see what can be > done. Sadly, it is still needed for basic sound effects in GNOME. Work is being done to remove the d

Re: Gnome sound server

2007-01-30 Thread Alan Ianson
he sound server is disabled? It was suggested to me off list to install libesd-alsa0 so I did. That replaced libesd0 and now I can turn the sound server on and rhythmbox works when the sound server is enabled but ut200? still can't play sounds when the sound server is turned on. > If you s

Re: Gnome sound server

2007-01-30 Thread Sven Arvidsson
e > > gnome's sound server? > > As far as currently ALSA supports dmix out of the box probably sound > servers are no longer needed and better if you don't use it. Agreed, unless you really want sound effects in GNOME applications, dmix is the way to go. If you still

Re: Gnome sound server

2007-01-30 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
On 2007-01-30, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whenever I turn on gnome's sound server it blocks some apps like ut2004 > and rhythmbox from playing sounds. Is there a better way to configure > gnome's sound server? > > As far as currently ALSA supports dmix out of the box probably sound s

Gnome sound server

2007-01-29 Thread Alan Ianson
Whenever I turn on gnome's sound server it blocks some apps like ut2004 and rhythmbox from playing sounds. Is there a better way to configure gnome's sound server? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnome sound server monopolizing alsa's audio

2003-12-18 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 09:56:37AM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: > On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 09:37, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > The only thing close to this is "esd -terminate" that kills the server after > > the last client exits. However that's not very useful for gnome, since > > it only plays a little

Re: gnome sound server monopolizing alsa's audio

2003-12-18 Thread Mark Roach
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 10:04, Dobai-Pataky Balint wrote: > On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 16:56, Mark Roach wrote: > i have this(followed the man pages): > > cat /etc/esound/esd.conf > [esd] > auto_spawn=1 > spawn_options=-terminate -nobeeps -as 5 > spawn_wait_ms=100 That doesn't work when esd is not aut

Re: gnome sound server monopolizing alsa's audio

2003-12-18 Thread Dobai-Pataky Balint
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 16:56, Mark Roach wrote: > What I usually do is move /usr/bin/esd to /usr/bin/esd.real and create a > new /usr/bin/esd containing: > > #!/bin/sh > exec /usr/bin/esd.real -as 5 $* > i have this(followed the man pages): cat /etc/esound/esd.conf [esd] auto_spawn=1 spawn_opti

Re: gnome sound server monopolizing alsa's audio

2003-12-18 Thread Mark Roach
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 09:37, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > The only thing close to this is "esd -terminate" that kills the server after > the last client exits. However that's not very useful for gnome, since > it only plays a little sound every once in a while. It'd have to run > the server each time

Re: gnome sound server monopolizing alsa's audio

2003-12-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 08:26:44AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 08:11:10AM -0500, Laurence J. Lane wrote: > > Any given program can hog a single DSP. > > I guess my question is, since the sound server isn't always playing > sounds, shouldn't it relinquish control between

Re: gnome sound server monopolizing alsa's audio

2003-12-18 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 08:11:10AM -0500, Laurence J. Lane wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 06:29:15AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > > Is this a known bug, and if so, is there a workaround? I tried > > searching the BTS, but I wasn't really sure which package to look for. > > Any given program

Re: gnome sound server monopolizing alsa's audio

2003-12-18 Thread Laurence J. Lane
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 06:29:15AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > Is this a known bug, and if so, is there a workaround? I tried > searching the BTS, but I wasn't really sure which package to look for. Any given program can hog a single DSP. Here are a few workarounds: A) hardware that support

gnome sound server monopolizing alsa's audio

2003-12-18 Thread Rob VanFleet
I'm currently using sid's Gnome 2.4 and alsa 0.9.8-3 with an Intel 82801EB integrated sound card (snd-intel8x0 driver). It works fine except for when I enable sound events in gnome. When gnome's sound server is running nothing gets to use the audio device save gnome itself. My event sounds work