On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल <wahjava.ml@ gmail.com> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > >>>>> "Tanveer" == Tanveer Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [snip] > > Tanveer> I don't have root access. So is this possible. How to do that,. > Tanveer> currently the most stable combo I have found is running ESD. > Amarok is > Tanveer> running fine with that. > > ALSA is the lowest-level user-space interface with sound cards in > GNU/Linux. The drivers of sound cards implements ALSA interface. The > sound servers exists to provide multiplexing, so that multiple > applications can access your underlying sound devices. esd (or ESound) > is the sound server which comes with earlier releases of GNOME, so I > guess you're running GNOME. artsd is the sound server which is shipping > with KDE < 3.6. xine and other audio/video backends have support for > these sound servers. > > Tanveer> However if I select ALSA sound system in amarok(engine), xinelib > cribs that > Tanveer> it cannot initialize drivers. > > Since you're running esd, thats why no other application can open ALSA > devices atm, which why xine responds negatively. > > Tanveer> So I am stuck with OSS or ESD. > > If you want to disable ESD, goto System->Preferences->Sound, and uncheck > Enable Software Sound mixing (or something similar option). If you want > to instantaneously do that, 'killall esd' :) > > ALSA[1] is an extremely flexible sound system. And its plugins[2] are > awesome. > Thanks! your post gave me direction to go and debug And what I found? The KDE system locks the sound system for 60 seconds after doing anything with it, so no other applications can use it. thats why after any system bell kinda event, I had this silly problem crop up in amarok. I went to kcontrol and disabled the kde sound system. In amarok I selected alsa sound system, and everything is rocking now Thanks! One question though, in windows if application A is playing something, and I start application B which plays some other sound, I usually hear a mix of both through the speakers, can such a thing happen in linux too? Just speculating. _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
