On Thursday 30 January 2003 10:32, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 06:02, Lonnie Borntreger wrote: > > It would be REAL nice if we could get a common "multi-open" interface > > across all of Linux. Of course, I believe this would work the best if > > done at the driver level eliminating the need for artsd, esd, jack, > > etc. Anything "higher" than the driver means that the apps have to be > > developed to that API, as opposed to the "normal" audio API so you'll > > never have all apps work and play together. I'm sure I'll get kicked > > for that point of view... > > Not at all. I thought that was part of the point of ALSA? Doesn't it > support multiple opening at the driver level?
At least it seems to work, no clue if it was the intention. with both , my cs46xx (terratec dmx-fire 1024) and my former onboard AC97 I was allways able to oben several mplayers a bunch of xmms' and let them all play. The problem of artsd is that it takes over /dev/dsp exclusiv (for me the only application i know that do this). So if I want to hear music or start mplayer 'killall artsd' is mandatory. Another solution would be to set the artsd idletime to 3-5s and switch off all soundevents in kde. With killed artsd I never had any problems with sound in any apps (beside I don't use any kde-app for sound or video) But I'm not too deep in audio. -- Regards Steffen ____________________ counter.li.org : #296567. machine: 181800 vdr-box : 87 ____________________ Please dont CC me, since if I have replied I'll watch the tread. Both mails will be filtered to the ML-folder. Thanks
