[lug] Linux sound or lack thereof

[Todd Ruskell]

Another useful tidbit regarding both artsd for kde and enlightenment
sound daemon, esd commonly used in gnome.

If you have them set to not timeout, that is, to hog /dev/dsp and
/dev/mixer, you can get other apps to use the sound.  Try something
like:

artsdsp xmms      or
esddsp xmms

which effectively tells the daemon to accept connections, or some such,
from the application, in this case xmms.

As an aside, is there a way to make plugins like flash behave this way? 
I've only ever gotten it to work with standalone apps.

Todd

This will allow

On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 13:42, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 11:07:38AM -0600, David Morris wrote:
> > I don't know if this will fix any of your problems, but
> > ensure your user account is a member of the 'audio' group so
> > it has full access to the audio devices.  Some programs I've
> > found will throw a fit if they don't have rw access to all
> > audio devices.  I seem to recall that some programs use suid
> > or sgid for sound so just because one app works doesn't mean
> > all will.
> > 
> > Also ensure all programs are configured to use the proper
> > audio device.  The devices of interest are generally
> > /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer, but not always.
> > 
> > --David
> > 
> 
> I was made a member of group audio by something in Debian install
> process. And of several other groups.
> 
> Your suggestion about /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer lead me to look at
> output of lsof. There is nothing about /dev/mixer, but artsd is 
> using both /dev/dsp and /dev/null !!! Very curious. 
> 
> I've found some doc.s on artsd, and a pop window "arts status"
> which tells me that "artsd is not configured for realtime scheduling".
> So, I think I need to learn how to configure artsd.
> 
> Thanks. I have a lot to read before I ask more questions.
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