sound question

[Petre Bandac]

[petre at kgb]$ ps -ax | grep esd                                                
~
80418  ??  Ss     2:56.38 esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 2 -spawnfd 5
84843  p5  S+     0:00.01 egrep esd


so if I kill -9 the esd process, icq will start emitting sounds ?

petre


On Thursday 13 November 2003 21:04 Anno Domini, Cordula's Web wrote using one 
of his keyboards:
> > play: /dev/dsp: Device busy
>
> Perhaps esd is running and grabbing the sound device?
>
> I have a similar problem with mpg123. Calling mpg123
> multiple times (e.g. in a loop with a shell script)
> until it works is an acceptable work-around for me:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> until (mpg123 "$1")
> do
>     sleep 1;
> done
>
> Of course, a solution would be better than a work-arond :)

-- 
Login: petre          			Name: Petre Bandac
Directory: /home/petre              	Shell: /usr/local/bin/zsh
On since Tue Nov 11 14:37 (EET) on ttyv0, idle 11:21 (messages off)
No Mail.
No Plan.