On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 01:49:29AM +0100, Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Aaron McDaid wrote:
> > But apps have to be esd aware to work.
>> so? apps also have to libc aware... what do you want? GNOME in
> kernel?
> userspace problem.
I NEVER said otherwise. Period
> > But this hypothetical networking thing I'm talking about would
> > take whats written to /dev/dspX and send it. It would be
> > relatively transparent.
>> that hypothetical thing is esd - it can listen to a socket, as well
> as many other network audio daemons.
I just tried esddsp. Cool, it does the job I want.
But I didn't think it was possible!
How the hell does it work? I ran 2 mpg123s and an xmms.
My mpg123 is NOT esd aware, how does esddsp reroute it's
request to /dev/dsp .
> (X server should be the arbitrator for /all/ user i/o. it already
> handles screens, keyboards and mice, audio is just as logical)
Good point there. Seeing as esddsp seems to solve backwards compatibility.
> Paul Jakma paul at clubi.iepaul at jakma.org
Aaron - Thanks for putting up with me till I used esddsp.
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