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[Mads Laursen <dossen+sgl AT daimi.au.dk>]

On 06/08/04 08.44, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Rohan Nicholls <rohan.nicholls AT pareto.nl>:
> > Well I am open for suggestions....
> > 
> > I was using alsa on its own before, but I could only have one sound 
> > stream at a time, which is not ideal, so if there is another solution 
> > please let me know.  I agree that esd is evil, but it is the lesser evil 
> > when compared to apps hanging because they are waiting for the sound 
> > device to be released.  Maybe alsa has this working now?
> 
> I believe it does, since I could play my music (rhythmbox) and have two 
> Never
> Winter Nights windows opened (using `Xnest`) and I heard all the sounds. :)
> You'll want to make sure that xmms is using the ALSA interface and not the 
> OSS
> (default, IIRC).

I some trouble finding it, but the feature is called DMIX, and it
works quite well.

My xmms is set to ALSA, with the 'Audio Device' set to 'pcm.dmix'.

And since I don't want to bother with stuff like gaim, that like esd,
I jus put this in my /etc/esd.conf:
[esd]
auto_spawn=1
spawn_options=-terminate -nobeeps -as 2 -d pcm.dmix
spawn_wait_ms=100

Hope this helps.

/dossen

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