Sound card for two applications

[Guillermo Garron]

Richard E Miles wrote:

>On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:11:42 -0400
>Guillermo Garron <ggarron at alketech.com> wrote:
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>>Richard E Miles wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 17:34:19 -0400
>>>Guillermo Garron <ggarron at alketech.com> wrote:
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>>>>Answer to myself.
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>>>>the package is esound
>>>>i have it installed on my system at least
>>>>rpm -qa | grep esound
>>>>gives the next answer.
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>>>>esound-0.2.36-0.fc4.1
>>>>but i cant finde the command esound
>>>>nor
>>>>/etc/init.d/esound
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>>>>what am i doing wrong ?
>>>>how could i be sure i am running the aplication?
>>>>regards,
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>>>>Guillermo
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>>>>Guillermo Garron wrote:
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>>>>>Hi guys,
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>>>>>I am using FC4 with an INTEL integrated sound card.
>>>>>Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller,
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>>>>>I have tried to use skype when my browser have the control of the 
>>>>>sound card, and i have to turn off all applications that uses the 
>>>>>sound card in order to use the one i want.
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>>>>>i have read somewhere that it is needed to install a special software 
>>>>>to make linux able to run two aplications that uses the same sound card.
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>>>>>am i right? please tell me what i am doing wrong.
>>>>>regards,
>>>>>Guillermo Garron
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>>>To start the esound daemon the command is /usr/bin/esd. You can check if it
>>>currently running with ps ax|grep esd.
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>>Thanks Richard,
>>it is actually running,
>>4133 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 2 -spawnfd 36
>>got this with
>>ps ax | grep esd
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>>do i need to configure the applications to use it?
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>>greetings,
>>Guillermo.
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>No. Gnome startup starts it and it just runs as a daemon.
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Thanks you very much.
but i am still with the same sympthoms.

while i am using realPlayer i do not hear the alarmas of my gaim
:(
regards,
Guillermo.