sound

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Thu Aug 7 14:55:57 UTC 2008


Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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).

He said, "I am using CentOS 4.5".  This is a clone of RHELv4.  The nahant 
list may be a better place to take this query.

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