Sound card for two applications

[Guillermo Garron]

Richard E Miles wrote:

>On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 17:34:19 -0400
>Guillermo Garron <ggarron at alketech.com> wrote:
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>>Answer to myself.
>>:)
>>
>>the package is esound
>>i have it installed on my system at least
>>rpm -qa | grep esound
>>gives the next answer.
>>
>>esound-0.2.36-0.fc4.1
>>but i cant finde the command esound
>>nor
>>/etc/init.d/esound
>>
>>what am i doing wrong ?
>>how could i be sure i am running the aplication?
>>regards,
>>
>>Guillermo
>>
>>
>>Guillermo Garron wrote:
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>>>Hi guys,
>>>
>>>I am using FC4 with an INTEL integrated sound card.
>>>Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller,
>>>
>>>I have tried to use skype when my browser have the control of the 
>>>sound card, and i have to turn off all applications that uses the 
>>>sound card in order to use the one i want.
>>>
>>>i have read somewhere that it is needed to install a special software 
>>>to make linux able to run two aplications that uses the same sound card.
>>>
>>>am i right? please tell me what i am doing wrong.
>>>regards,
>>>Guillermo Garron
>>>
>>>      
>>>
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>To start the esound daemon the command is /usr/bin/esd. You can check if it
>currently running with ps ax|grep esd.
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Thanks Richard,
it is actually running,
4133 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 2 -spawnfd 36
got this with
ps ax | grep esd

do i need to configure the applications to use it?

greetings,
Guillermo.