--- "David A. Bandel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 23:00:20 -0500 > begin Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth: > > > Previously, Mike Andrew chose to write: > > > On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 23:58, David A. Bandel wrote: > > > >KDE is much like Windoze in the way it > > > > assumes whoever is logged in is the only user. This is > incredibly > > > > rude and arrogant, especially for a system that is designed to > be > > > > multi-user. > > > > > > cannot agree more with the sentiment, but I don't believe it's a > kde > > > issue. afaik the GiveConsole and circus is supplied via Xfree. > It's > > > hard for me to understand what security issues they are trying to > > > protect. I can't see the sense in re-assigning /dev/anything. > > > > Well, I'm afraid there's something else horking it up as well, > probably > > something the app itself is doing. Even with TakeConsole modified, > I'll > > eventually get choppiness in the sound file playback. The only > solution > > I've come up with is to shutdown to runlevel 3 and go back to > runlevel > > 5. > > > > BTW: A side effect of my TakeConsole change was to have the login > sound > > play over my speakers when someone logs in remotely. Maybe that's > what > > the Xfree guys were eliminating... > > > > OK, I just installed XFree86-4.2.0 in a Linux From Scratch system. > Can't > get more pristine than this. There are NO references to any devices > in > xdm _except_ /dev/console (you can't get an xconsole if /dev/console > doesn't belong to you). So this is _NOT_ an X issue, it's a > KDE/Gnome/other WM issue. And after installing Blackbox and Ion, I > still > don't have any reference to /dev/audio or /dev/dsp. > > So if, as you say, this isn't done by KDE, then it's done by the > distros. > > Yes, if someone remotely logs in KDE and they have sound enabled, you > will > hear it on the remote box. What needs to happen is for these folks to > use > network sound managers (like rplay) that send sound to the system that > requested sound, not necessarily the one being logged into. > > And as you've found out, if multiple devices are attached to the same > sound device, you get crappy sound (if any).
This is definitely done by the ditros. A few months ago I remember this issue coming up, and someone from Caldera commented that they include those scripts for some rather weird reason. ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - sign up for Fantasy Baseball http://sports.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
