Sound card for two applications

[Richard E Miles]

On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:11:42 -0400
Guillermo Garron <ggarron at alketech.com> wrote:

> Richard E Miles wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 17:34:19 -0400
> >Guillermo Garron <ggarron at alketech.com> wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>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:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>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
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >
> >To start the esound daemon the command is /usr/bin/esd. You can check if it
> >currently running with ps ax|grep esd.
> >
> >  
> >
> 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.
> 

No. Gnome startup starts it and it just runs as a daemon.

-- 
Richard Miles
Federal Way WA. USA
registered linux user 46097