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[Rohan Nicholls <rohan.nicholls AT pareto.nl>]

Mads Laursen wrote:
> 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'.

Thanks for this, it worked as root but not otherwise, I have put myself 
in the audio group, but I must be missing something.  If I pick from the 
list of drivers I have no problems, and have still not tried playing 
more than one stream at once.



> 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.
When I figure out the mixing rights I will put this in there.

Thanks for the tips.

Rohan