Re: virtual OSS devices [for making selfish apps happy]

[Nick Warne]

Hi Christian,

On 11/21/05, Christian Parpart < trapni@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,

> I'm having some apps running on my desktop that all want
> exclusive access to my sound device just for playing audio
> (and a single app for capturing), namely: 
>
>  * TeamSpeak (VoIP team voice chat)
>  * Cedega (for playing some win32 games on my beloved box) 
>  * KDE/arts (my desktop wants to play some sounds as well wtf) 

Slack 10 with 2.6.14.2 using ALSA (artsd).

I have never had any problems with TS and other apps accessing sound* - KDE 
notifications happen when I am on TS and playing a game of Quake2 while 
listening to xmms on my patented mp3's.

What distro? What kernel? What desktop manager you use?

Nick
* I still can't get firefox and flash sound to work though - all OK in konq.
-- 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/quake2plus/

"Person who say it cannot be done should not interrupt person doing it."
-Chinese Proverb

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