[mythtv-users] Gnome and Sound -- not being shared

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/13/05 16:33, Mlists wrote:

>Yea, thats one option but turning it off and on when I want to use myth
>is a bit of a pain.
>
So, why ever turn it on?  Do you really want your Myth box (or any 
computer for that matter) to make all those "ear candy" sounds?  But, if 
you really want it, you could make a script that disables the sound 
daemon, starts myth, then enables the sound daemon.  Or, write a patch 
for Myth that creates a new audio output device for ESD (or whatever 
GNOME uses).

>  I would have thought I could get them to work
>together. In fact, on my other system is does just that but I don't know
>what the difference is... other then sound cards are different.  They
>are both Debian systems running Gnome, one with a Soundblaster Live and
>my notebook with an Intel8x0 sound card.
>  
>
And the SoundBlaster Live! works even with the sound daemon, but the 
i8x0 doesn't, right?  The SB Live! is a true hardware sound card with 
hardware mixing support.  The i8x0 is not, so only one app can use the 
card at a time.

Mike