Re: [Sheflug] Problems with XMMS

[Bob Ham <nospam [at] dcs.shef.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 29 May 2000, Neil R Porter wrote:

If you've got esd enabled, and sounds for events in gnome enabled, esd
will, kind of, spool sounds until it can get at the hardware.  If you do
have these enabled, this will be what happens.

1. Gnome gives esd a sound to play.
2. esd tries the hardware, but doesn't get it, so it waits.
3. XMMS finishes the song it's playing and releases the hardware.
4. esd plays the sound (it way be that you can't hear it, or don't
   notice it.)
5. While esd is playing the sound, XMMS has loaded the next song and
   tries to grab the OSS hardware, but can't until esd has finished with
   it.

Try disabling esd in Gnome control-centre if you haven't, and then see
what happens.

Bob

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