On 1/1/1970, "MJ Ray" mjr@dsl.pipex.com wrote:
On 2003-11-19 20:59:27 +0000 Keith Watson kpwatson@ukfsn.org wrote:
However it does annoy me that if I load up, say, Doom, I have to remember to kill esd or Doom hangs. Also means that I can't have music and sound effects.
If esddsp still exists, try "esddsp dumb" or whatever you're using. Maybe even set your terminal to be esddsp'd if that's what you launch it from. I'm not sure why this hasn't troubled me recently. Are newer sound cards better at multichannel under alsa?
Ah thanks Mark, someone else mentioned esddsp a while back and I'd completely forgotten about it. I'll give it a try.
On reflection, though, it seems to deal with the problem from the wrong end, STS, wouldn't it be better to somehow hook the DSP device and redirect stuff sent to it... oops hang on, can't do that as esd uses DSP. I suppose if we could rename the DSP device to something else and get esd to use that and then replace the dsp with a rediect to esd? Can any technical gurus out there tell me if this would work? (or if anyone's already done it?)
Keith