sound

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 21:26 +0000, tony.chamberlain at lemko.com wrote:
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> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:02:31 -0430
> From: "Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallaghan at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: sound
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
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> 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?
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> That's what soundservers are for. Are you running PulseAudio? (You don't
> say what version of Fedora you have).
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> poc
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> It's not Fedora.  It's CentOS 4.5.

Sorry, I missed that in your post.

> I am not running Pulse Audio but I
> will investigate.  Will it work with USB speaker?

AFAIK it doesn't care about the actual drivers, which belong to the ALSA
level, so there's no reason it shouldn't work. However it may not be
supported on CentOS, I've no idea. In any case, the point is that you
need some kind of sound server. If it's not PA it might be ArTS or JACK
or something else.

poc