Re: play-sound-file & esd

[Andreas Schwab]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Where do we stand on this?
>
> It looks like you are running ALSA v1.0.11rc2, and it does NOT
> work to have multiple opens.  ALSA experts, is that version supposed
> to be new enough to support multiple opens?

AFAIK that version should be new enough.  But only the native ALSA
interface has access to the software mixer.  When using the legacy OSS
interface (eg. through /dev/dsp) you are still limited to a single open.

Andreas.

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