sound

[tony.chamberlain at lemko.com]

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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
Message-ID: <1218119551.12220.15.camel at bree.homelinux.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?

That's what soundservers are for. Are you running PulseAudio? (You don't
say what version of Fedora you have).

poc



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It's not Fedora.  It's CentOS 4.5.  I am not running Pulse Audio but I
will investigate.  Will it work with USB speaker?

Oops I just checked.  Somehow I now have CentOS 4.6