sound
tony.chamberlain at lemko.com
tony.chamberlain at lemko.com
Thu Aug 7 21:26:30 UTC 2008
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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
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