Sound problem -- better defined

[Net Llama]

--- "David A. Bandel" <david at pananix.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 23:00:20 -0500
> begin  Tim Wunder <twunder at iwmail.com> spewed forth:
> 
> > Previously, Mike Andrew chose to write:
> > > On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 23:58, David A. Bandel wrote:
> > > >KDE is much like Windoze in the way it
> > > > assumes whoever is logged in is the only user.  This is
> incredibly
> > > > rude and arrogant, especially for a system that is designed to
> be
> > > > multi-user.
> > >
> > > cannot agree more with the sentiment, but I don't believe it's a
> kde
> > > issue. afaik the GiveConsole and circus is supplied via Xfree.
> It's
> > > hard for me to understand what security issues they are trying to
> > > protect. I can't see the sense in re-assigning /dev/anything.
> > 
> > Well, I'm afraid there's something else horking it up as well,
> probably 
> > something the app itself is doing. Even with TakeConsole modified,
> I'll 
> > eventually get choppiness in the sound file playback. The only
> solution
> > I've come up with is to shutdown to runlevel 3 and go back to
> runlevel
> > 5. 
> > 
> > BTW: A side effect of my TakeConsole change was to have the login
> sound
> > play over my speakers when someone logs in remotely. Maybe that's
> what
> > the Xfree guys were eliminating...
> > 
> 
> OK, I just installed XFree86-4.2.0 in a Linux From Scratch system. 
> Can't
> get more pristine than this.  There are NO references to any devices
> in
> xdm _except_ /dev/console (you can't get an xconsole if /dev/console
> doesn't belong to you).  So this is _NOT_ an X issue, it's a
> KDE/Gnome/other WM issue.  And after installing Blackbox and Ion, I
> still
> don't have any reference to /dev/audio or /dev/dsp.
> 
> So if, as you say, this isn't done by KDE, then it's done by the
> distros.
> 
> Yes, if someone remotely logs in KDE and they have sound enabled, you
> will
> hear it on the remote box.  What needs to happen is for these folks to
> use
> network sound managers (like rplay) that send sound to the system that
> requested sound, not necessarily the one being logged into.
> 
> And as you've found out, if multiple devices are attached to the same
> sound device, you get crappy sound (if any).

This is definitely done by the ditros.  A few months ago I remember this
issue coming up, and someone from Caldera commented that they include
those scripts for some rather weird reason.

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