On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 09:24 +1100, Peter Rundle wrote: > I also never managed to solve the sound lock out problem. My system is > running > esd, and in theory esd sould manage/mix multiple audio out requests,
And it does. But it won't open up access to your sound card for all users unless you ask it to. If you tell esd to be 'public' and listen on a tcp socket, this problem will go away. By default, however it listens on a unix domain socket, which essentially gets file-like permissions that are probably blocking out your other session. The other way to do this is to tell esd to close the connection to the audio device when it's not using it. Then, when you switch users the device will be unlocked and it will work like you'd expect (similarly, the first esd will be able to re-open the device after control has been relinquished by the second one). The mechanism setting the permissions of your audio device is almost certainly pam_console. If it bothers you, you can turn it off and fall-back to the "old" way of doing things by putting /dev/dsp in the audio group etc. And please, if you've got issues with GNOME (or anything else), take them to a sensible forum. Like their bugzilla. James. -- "There is no I in TEAM but there is an i in Ninja" -- http://www.ninjaburger.com/sekrit/
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