Skype or Gizmoproject.com was: Re: Has Ubuntu Replaced Windowson Your Box?

[Daniel Robitaille]

> I have determined that the problem arises when other programs are
> using/have used the sound interface. After rebooting earlier today,
> Gizmo worked fine until I had launched other programs which use sound.
>
> For example, if realplay is running or even just open, the
> above-mentioned 'Failed to execute child process "audiowrapper"' error
> occurs. However, I have now exited realplay and am staring at the
> output of ps -e looking for any other program which may be hogging
> sound in the current session without luck -- I have also tried "lsof
> grep /dev/dsp" without determining the culprit. Any other suggestions
> on how to determine which programs are using sound would be most
> welcome.

I had the same problem.  You can try to kill the esd process (ps -ef ,
then kill the process id)  then restart esd (I used system -->
preferences --> Multimedia System Selecter and then tested my sound). 
That did the trick for me with gizmo.

> It seems that some Linux programs are better are sharing the sound
> interface than others...

yes.  Generally the ones available inside Ubuntu repositories are a
lot better than 3rd- party applications (Gizmo, Skype, Realplayer,
etc).


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Daniel Robitaille