Sound card for two applications

[Richard E Miles]

On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 17:34:19 -0400
Guillermo Garron <ggarron at alketech.com> wrote:

> Answer to myself.
> :)
> 
> the package is esound
> i have it installed on my system at least
> rpm -qa | grep esound
> gives the next answer.
> 
> esound-0.2.36-0.fc4.1
> but i cant finde the command esound
> nor
> /etc/init.d/esound
> 
> what am i doing wrong ?
> how could i be sure i am running the aplication?
> regards,
> 
> Guillermo
> 
> 
> Guillermo Garron wrote:
> 
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I am using FC4 with an INTEL integrated sound card.
> > Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > am i right? please tell me what i am doing wrong.
> > regards,
> > Guillermo Garron
> >
> 

To start the esound daemon the command is /usr/bin/esd. You can check if it
currently running with ps ax|grep esd.

-- 
Richard Miles
Federal Way WA. USA
registered linux user 46097