[Hoary] Sound problems

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 11:02:20 -0500, darrenadams
<ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> 
> Have you tried setting the 'other' (i.e. not your own) accounts to use
> OSS rather than ESD? I ask because I've been doing some experimenting
> with the problems you've described and it seems that the only way I can
> get those other accounts sound to play  sound is by setting  the input
> sources for those accounts to OSS. And I notice from your posts that
> you've not mentioned using the OSS input source.
> 
> If you've already tried that, then sorry for bothering you #-o

No bother at all (happy to get responses), but yes Alsa (and I assume)
OSS work for the other users, but then the user gets scary errors if
they try to launch two apps that use sound. I haven't tried tweaking
around iwth dmix, so I'm sure I can work around this somehow. What I'm
basically trying to find out is if I *need* to do this because that
problem with polypaudio is going to exist in the released version of
Hoary (because it's too hard to fix, or because they're past feature
freeze, whatever).

-Eamonn