On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Michael Gallagher wrote:
> Hi,
> I am very new to Linux, but I'm trying to learn the basics. I have a
> couple of probably very simple questions. 1. When using sound under Gnome
> with ESD enabled, sounds mix together when being played, ie. If I'm using
> GAIM and playing mp3s I'll hear both sounds at once. With KDE this is not
> the case. I'll hear the sounds for GAIM, that would have occurred over a
> period of ten minutes, all bunched together after the song is finished. Is
> there anyway to adjust this? I noticed that it happens with any two sounds
> being played simultaneously. Is it something that only ESD can do? 2.
> With Mandrake 6.1 I used to be able to use Gnome if I copied Xclients to my
> Home directory and added gnome-session. However with Mandrake 7.0 I cannot
> get this to work. The only way I can get into Gnome is by running Prefdm.
> Is there another way of doing this? I know there is someway to do it with
> xinitrc, but I don't know how. Thanks a lot for any help with these
> questions. I know they are simple, but I'm still learning.
>
>
> Mike
Yes it's specific to esound, I'm not familiar enough with maudio and
kaudioserver to make them run useing esd apps, it's likely posible.
Try useing desktopcfg to change you GUI
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