Using Debian was (Re: [Ilugc] Difference between distros , and the best distro?)

  • From: suraj@xxxxxxxxxxx (Suraj)
  • Date: Mon Aug 30 14:43:32 2004

Suriya Narayanan M S wrote: 
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| 3. Know that only one application can write to /dev/dsp. I use KDE all
| the  time   so  have  apps  (mplayer,  xmms,   xine,  mpg123,  ogg123,
| etc. Though
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Unless you  have a hardware audio  mixer in your sound  card (and your
kernel  driver   supports  it)  that  lets  multiple   apps  write  to
/dev/dsp. The 'trident.o' driver is one example.

cheers,

  -Suraj

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| M.S. Subbulakshmi can play veena and mridangam also, which she learned from
| her mother and brother respectively.
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