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------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:02:31 -0430 From: "Patrick O'Callaghan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: sound To: fedora-list@redhat.com Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 13:13 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am using CentOS 4.5. I bought a USB speaker. Sound works fine. > My problem though is that whatever player I am using "hijacks" the sound. > That is, if I go to youtube or accuradio or whatever (play via mozilla), > then when that is finished, if I try to use xine or realplayer everything > works fine EXCEPT the sound ;-) I have to exit and pkill firefox. > Similarly if I use xine or realplay and later want to hear via firefox > there is no sound. Doing a pkill on xine or realplay is not enough. > I HAVE TO REBOOT. > > There should be someway to release the sound device (maybe different in > each case) so something else can use it? That's what soundservers are for. Are you running PulseAudio? (You don't say what version of Fedora you have). poc ------------------------------ It's not Fedora. It's CentOS 4.5. I am not running Pulse Audio but I will investigate. Will it work with USB speaker? Oops I just checked. Somehow I now have CentOS 4.6 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
