Try loading userdrake and adding your 'user' to the audio group. Also, have you configured a Bastille firewall? That can sometimes mess up ESD.
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 09:07:41 +0200, Raffaele Belardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ESD is still running. I tried your hint without success (thanks anyway). > > Then I tried to run xmms and grecord as root, and this time it works, > i.e. I am able to play an mp3 from xmms and a recorded wav from grecord > without need to close one of the two apps. > > I had no time to investigate, I just did an 'ls -l' on /dev/sound and > noticed that all the devices have 'crw' properties set for owner only > (root?), and '---' for others. Could this be the in some relation with > the problem I have running as normal user? > > raffaele > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Firstly, check if ESD is still running. Some apps may kill it by mistake, > > forcing new apps to fall back to OSS or ALSA for sound. Secondly, try > > launching your app with 'esddsp' appended at the beginning, e.g.: > > > > $ esddsp xmms > > > > This should hopefully force the app to use ESD. > > > > On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 11:38:01 +0200, Raffaele Belardi > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > >>Well, yes, it's exactly what I'm using :-) > >> > >>The problem I have (I think) is that there are two applications (sound > >>recorder and xmms) trying to access the sound card and one of them gets > >>trown out with the 'sound device busy' message. Shouldn't ESD sort this out? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "The reason I'm doing Linux is not because I think I'm "needed". It's because I enjoy it, and because I happen to believe that I'm better than most at it. Not necessarily better than everybody else around there, but good enough, and with the social ties to make me unbeatable right now." -- Linus Torvalds
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