[ale] GNOME hogs /dev/dsp

[linux-clusters at mindspring.com (Steven A. DuChene)]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 05:41:01PM -0400, Kevin Krumwiede wrote:
> I finally got around to rebuilding my kernel so I have sound.  (I have a
> ISA AWE64 and have never had any luck with ALSA, I gotta use the OSS
> module and build it into the kernel.)  If I click the play button in
> XMMS and there has been a GNOME system sound in the last ~30 seconds, it
> complains about /dev/dsp not being available.
> 
> Any idea how to control how long ESD holds onto /dev/dsp?
> 

How about changing the configuration of XMMS to use esd instead of fight
with it?
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Steven A. DuChene      linux-clusters at mindspring.com
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