On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 14:30, Walter Francis wrote: > I updated my workstation a few days ago, and can't get artsd to run, so I > have been stopping XMMS playing, etc, to play mplayer, etc.. Today I > forgot, and much to my surprize, it worked. > In fact xmms, mpg123, mplayer, Unreal Tournament, and The Art of Sound will > all happily play at the same time > No artsd, no esd.. > How in the world is this possible? Is this a (NICE) feature I missed about > RH9, or? That only means that your apps are using the sound driver (OSS or ALSA) directly instead of through some sound daemon, and the mixing is performed at a lower level than in the sound daemon. It's actually nothing extraordinary. This is how people used to play music on Linux before the advent of sound daemons. -- Florin Andrei "Never send a human to do a machine's job." - Agent Smith -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
