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unfortunately no, it will just "mute" my xmms session

any other solutions ?

petre

On Thursday 13 November 2003 21:11 Anno Domini, Petre Bandac wrote using one 
of his keyboards:
> [petre@kgb]$ ps -ax | grep esd
> ~
> 80418  ??  Ss     2:56.38 esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 2 -spawnfd 5
> 84843  p5  S+     0:00.01 egrep esd
>
>
> so if I kill -9 the esd process, icq will start emitting sounds ?
>
> petre
>
>
> On Thursday 13 November 2003 21:04 Anno Domini, Cordula's Web wrote using
> one
>
> of his keyboards:
> > > play: /dev/dsp: Device busy
> >
> > Perhaps esd is running and grabbing the sound device?
> >
> > I have a similar problem with mpg123. Calling mpg123
> > multiple times (e.g. in a loop with a shell script)
> > until it works is an acceptable work-around for me:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > until (mpg123 "$1")
> > do
> >     sleep 1;
> > done
> >
> > Of course, a solution would be better than a work-arond :)

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