Re: Assigning sound card to specific X display - the chroot+bind-mount way

[Hugo V. <hvw...@ya...>]

--- Helge Hafting <hel...@ai...> wrote:

> Aivils wrote:
> 
> >On Thursday 02 June 2005 04:27, Ken McCord wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I'm running a dual-head setup using Debian
> unstable + the x.org packages
> >>from Ubuntu.  I have two sound cards, and I'd like
> to assign each of
> >>them
> >>to a specific X display.  How can I do this?
> >>
> >>The first sound card is /dev/dsp and the second is
> /dev/dsp1.  I want
> >>display :0 to use /dev/dsp and display :1 to use
> /dev/dsp1.
> >>
> >>I've tried the instructions available at
>
>>http://howtos.linux.com/howtos/XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO/automation_multy_snd-cards.shtml
> >>but I haven't been able to get them to work with
> gdm/Gnome.
> >>    
> >>
> >Under Linux access to sound subsystem  is little
> chaotic.
> >Any application use hers own sound driver.
> >
> >Try out set up artsd under KDE or esd under GNOME .
> 
> >
> >Even if these software sound mixers like artsd or
> esd runs
> >properly, then You cannot disable Java and Flash
> Player,
> >which uses sound device directly.
> >I open Java binary with hexedit and manulay replace
> >/dev/dsp with fake non-existing device file for
> silence.
> >  
> >
> There is a way.

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Sounds good. Has anybody actually done this?

Hugo





		
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