FC3 wishlist - sound server

[Albert J. Hawker]

I'm having similar issues with sound.  I have been favoring KDE on an
older Dell Inspiron 8000 (ESS Card) and have been pretty much going
through the same battle.

    -Al Hawker

On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 12:02, Marius Andreiana wrote:

> Hi
> 
> The current fedora has 2 sound servers (esd and artsd), and not all
> applications use it. It's not very easy to have multiple sources of
> sound pouring in the same device. Using GNOME I get around by telling
> xmms to use ESD output plugin, on command line (crons) I use esdplay, on
> gaim I specified ESD, for others I used esddsp. Switch to KDE and these
> don't work properly anymore.
> Even more, logout and login as another user. /dev/dsp remains owned by
> previous user, so it can't be used.
> 
> What about including a good sound server and use it by default? I don't
> know what's best, but Jack seems ok.
> http://jackit.sourceforge.net/
> JACK is a low-latency audio server, written primarily for the GNU/Linux
> operating system. It can connect a number of different applications to
> an audio device,
> as well as allowing them to share audio between themselves. 
> 
> Ideally, it would be used by default in all non-desktop apps. For GNOME,
> gstreamer would use it as default and for KDE I don't know the solution.
> Then one can have only one command line player by default, now there are
> at least 3 (play, aplay, esdplay).
> 
> Other opinions?
> 
> -- 
> Marius Andreiana
> Galuna - Solutii Linux in Romania
> http://www.galuna.ro

-- 
Albert J. Hawker <ajhawk at adelphia.net>
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