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Re: Sound Problems

David Haggett wrote:

> On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 06:01:24 +0100, Roy S Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> My sound card is installed properly and I can hear system notifications
>> and CD audio. However, any other program, e.g. MPlayer, XMMS and
>> RealPlayer fails to open the sound device. Any known solution?
>> Suggestion/s?
> 
> It looks like you are using a sound server (esd with gnome or arts with
> kde). The apps you mention are trying to use the sound device but it is
> already in use by the sound server.
> 
> I decided I didn't need a sound-server and just disabled it in the KDE
> Control Centre (but I don't get hear the system notifications).
> 
> RealPlayer and XMMS can use esd as an output "device" (useful if your
> using Gnome.
> 
> You can start some applications within a wrapper which allows them to use
> the sound server. In KDE, precede the application name with "artsdsp"
> (without the quotes). e.g.
>    artsdsp realplay
>    artsdsp xmms
> 
> If you're using the esd server with Gnome use "esddsp" instead of
> "artsdsp"
> 
> Interestingly, if you're running kde, and want to run applications that
> natively output to esd you can even type "artsdsp esd".  I've noticed the
> sound starts to get a bit fuzzy when you do that.

Wonderful!! Thanks David.

Roy

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