Re: Assigning sound card to X display

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

--- ludovic pollet <pl...@nn...> wrote:

> Le Mardi 16 Août 2005 08:05, vous avez écrit :
> > On Otrdiena, 9. Augusts 2005 03:04, ludovic pollet
> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I adressed the sound card issue with multiple X
> display.
> > >
> > > It is a little filesystem for fuse
> (http://fuse.sourceforge.net/).
> > > Basically, it provides a symlink which depends
> on the DISPLAY environment
> > > variable.
> > >
> > > When a process will open /dev/dsp, the symlink
> will resolve depending on
> > > the DISPLAY variable of the process. From there,
> it is easy to make
> > > process on first display open the first dsp, and
> so on...
> > >
> > > This should works for any program using OSS
> (this covers most unfriendly
> > > ones, like Mozilla plugin, OpenOffice or vmware,
> ...), or ALSA in
> > > emulation mode (for native mode, alsalib is our
> friend :-).
> > >
> > > Source and binary are available at
> http://www.nnx.com/~pludov/sessiond/
> > > It should work out of the box for Fedora core 3,
> (with fuse installed)...
> > >
> > > Any feedback is welcome !
> >
> > Hm. How easy is /dev/ttyXX redirect?
> > After /dev/tty redirect to new/fake driver all X
> switch-tty patches goes
> > away. So i have in my mind unpatched linux and X.
> >
> > Aivils
> 
> I don't really understand why tty redirection is
> interesting !
> But it should be just the same : Replace the
> existing /dev/ttyXX 
> to /var/session/currents/current/ttyXX and then,
> create the per display link 
> in /var/session/:0 or /var/session/:1
> 
> Then link in /var/session/:X will be used regarding
> the DISPLAY variable.
> 

What happens to using sound in the vc's? E.g. I hit
Alt+Ctl+F1 and in vc1/0 issue: play mplayer.wav?

Hugo






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