On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:00:02PM -0700, Rob Park wrote: > Alexandre Strube wrote: > >He's not the only one :-) > > > >I used to have a "killall esd" icon here just to unlock mozilla from > >time to time... Now gone, since I'm using alsa :-) > > Well, I have an sblive, so my /dev/dsp can handle multiple sounds at > once... which means I hate alsa because it's needless complication, and > I hate esd because it's awful (XMMS's little visualisation window is out > of sync with the music when it uses esd). So, gaim uses command 'play', > and everything else uses OSS output, as far as I know. A user of ALSA would never, ever denigrate it as "needless complication". -- Jack Bowling mailto: jbinpg@xxxxxxx