[CLUE-Tech] sharing /dev/dsp?

[Ed Hill]

On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 11:26, Dave Price wrote:
> Query,
> 
> is the (OSS?) /dev/dsp supposed to be shareable? (By more than one
> program at a time?
> 
> On a mandrake 9 system, I get /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
> 
> when I try to play a second source into the soundcard - particularly
> when xine is running first.


If you use esd (the Enlightenment Sound Daemon), then you can do things
like:

  esddsp xine &
  esddsp xmms &

and it will do on-the-fly mixing of the sound streams.

hth,
Ed

-- 
Ed Hill <ed at eh3.com>
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