Re: play-sound-file & esd

[joakim]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     I don't know the exact version, but AFAIK it was added beween 1.0.9 and
>     1.0.11.
>
> Then how come Sam experienced that multiple opens don't fail?
> He is using version 1.0.11.

I hope I'm answering the right question here, but I recall that the
alsa oss layer will permit multiple opens of the /dev/dsp device, if
the underlying hardare supports it. I also asked on #lad to verify
this. The alsa software mixer wont be available to oss devices,
though.

This is also consistent with what I experience with my hardware.

- on my laptop, with sad audio hardware, I always have to kill esd or
artsd in order to work with music applications, since these use jackd.

- on my workstation with a somewhat better audi card, this isnt
  necessary because the audio daemons just use another hardware
  channel than the music audio daemon jackd.

I hope I didnt add to the confusion.

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Joakim Verona
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