[Hoary] Sound problems

Eamonn Sullivan eamonn.sullivan at gmail.com
Tue Mar 1 10:27:34 UTC 2005


More information: 

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2. /tmp/.esd

Also, polypaudio creates /tmp/.esd, owned by the user that created it, but
it doesn't nicely namespace the directory by default. The next user that
tries to invoke polypaudio with esd compat gets a module failure.
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from here: http://seth.intheinter.net/pipermail/polypaudio-discuss/2005-February/000038.html

So,  basically, only the first user gets polypaudio/ESD playing
nicely. Others can get sound, but they need to use Alsa or OSS.

-Eamonn




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