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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