--- Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Eugenio Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
> [...]
>
> > > Because from the packager point of view, I don't know which sound daemon
> > > you will use, and the default uses OSS -> this doesn't work under Gnome
> > > and KDE for which their sound daemon sits on the dsp.
> >
> > Ok I am sorry, my bad. So if you configure xmms to use OSS output plugin
> and
> > then run it throught soundwrapper it works fine every (artsd, esd or no
> daemon)
> > time. I tested it with artsd, and works fine. My confusion came from when I
> did
> > the test using the OSS plugin and running xmms throught esddsp, and it
> failed
> > because of an unrelated problem I have with esd (see the other thread about
> esd
> > and SIGPIPE).
>
> Note that this solution is not perfect but yet I didn't find a perfect one.
>
> Probably it would be better if, when artsd is running, I would test for
> availability of artsd output plugin, and hackerishly edit on-the-fly your
> ~/.xmms/config so that default plugin would be set to artsd.
May be the xmms people could add that functionality to xmms, so that it checks
for a config flag at startup (something like CheckForSoundDaemon), and if set,
check for running sound daemons, and setup the correct plug-in.
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Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE
Linux Engineer
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