[Hoary] Sound problems

[Karl]

For some reason, I received five copies of this post.

On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 16:05 +0000, Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
> 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