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?
>>


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