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Date:      Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:22:01 -0800
From:      Joshua Tinnin <jtinnin@pacbell.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Cc:        Derrick Edwards <dantavious@comcast.net>
Subject:   Re: SKYPE Sound Problems
Message-ID:  <200412171222.02560.jtinnin@pacbell.net>
In-Reply-To: <200412171959.26989.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
References:  <200411211341.10072.dantavious@comcast.net> <200412171946.05130.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <200412171959.26989.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>

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On Friday 17 December 2004 10:59 am, Michael Nottebrock 
<michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Friday, 17. December 2004 19:45, I wrote:
> > With that modification, run artsdsp esd and test some app that uses
> > esound (like xmms with the esound output plugin enabled). fstat
> > /dev/dsp* should only show artsdsp.
>
> N.B.: artsdsp esd -nobeeps -as 1 is probably better for real-world
> usage, since this makes the wrapped esd release the device after 1
> second of idle time, allowing artsd to to the same (if configured
> that way). Oh yeah and -nobeeps is probably self-explaining 8-).

Actually, I find that sysctl works fine with virtual channels. Is there 
any advantage one way or another? Seems to me like virtual channels is 
a bit more ... elegant, but I'm not sure if it would matter. Thanks for 
the patch either way, as it might come in handy, and it's always good 
to learn about more than one way to solve a problem.

- jt



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