Assigning sound card to specific X display

[yitzhak b. g. <yit...@ya...>]

Try this for assigning sound in Gnome to specific
displays (picked from a forum):

Question:
I tend to play a lot of MP3 files (using X11Amp),
and I also have Licq running. While I'm playing MP3
files, Licq can't play sounds when a message comes in.
Is there any way to allow this? I realize that it
goes against standard UNIX principles, but...

Answer:
Esd is designed to address this, or at least start
to. Esd doesnt address the I have 5 streams and 3
sound cards cases yet but does the simple ones.

As long as each sound card has it's own /dev/dsp:

esd -port 5001 -d /dev/dsp1 &
esd -port 5002 -d /dev/dsp2 &
esd -port 5003 -d /dev/dsp3 &

For each stream, you'd need to set the ESPEAKER env.
var.
accordingly:

card 1: export ESPEAKER=:5001 or setenv ESPEAKER :5001
card 2: export ESPEAKER=:5002 or setenv ESPEAKER :5002
card 3: export ESPEAKER=:5003 or setenv ESPEAKER :5003

Alan, you want to let me know if^H^H how that works
out? =)

Esd is available from
http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/EsounD.html