esdplay interacts with the esd daemon that should already be running on your system and allows multiple programs to access the sound system at
once.
You need only have a program that can play audio files, and tell xastir what
that program is. I recommend esdplay, which is in the esd-clients (or some similarly named) package. It might even be installed already on your Kubuntu system. You need not compile anything new into xastir for regular audio alarms, only for speech synthesis.
esdplay is probably a better choice (than the mpg123 player that I mentioned last night) due to the interaction with the esd daemon that lets multiple programs simultaneously access the sound system. I couldn't find the esd stuff last night, but I realize now that esdplay it is part of esound-clients. esound-clients is not installed in Kubuntu on my box, but Adept finds it easily or sudo apt-get install esound-clients should work. I'm not changing mine - the mgp123 player works, and I turned the alarms off, anyway - too annoying! :-) Regards, Lee-K5DAT Murphy, TX _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
