sound

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 13:13 +0000, tony.chamberlain at lemko.com wrote:
> I am using CentOS 4.5.  I bought a USB speaker.  Sound works fine.
> My problem though is that whatever player I am using "hijacks" the sound.
> That is, if I go to youtube or accuradio or whatever (play via mozilla),
> then when that is finished, if I try to use xine or realplayer everything
> works fine EXCEPT the sound ;-)  I have to exit and pkill firefox.  
> Similarly if I use xine or realplay and later want to hear via firefox 
> there is no sound.  Doing a pkill on xine or realplay is not enough.
> I HAVE TO REBOOT.
> 
> There should be someway to release the sound device (maybe different in
> each case) so something else can use it?

That's what soundservers are for. Are you running PulseAudio? (You don't
say what version of Fedora you have).

poc