Dennis,
I will check into esound. Much of the frustration of was feeling was due
to minor issues.
Much of it was because I couldn't watch dvd's on my laptop. That is not
that big of a deal really.
Afterall, Why not just watch dvd's on the dvd player hooked up to my TV?
well I guess the point was
that my laptop came with a dvd player and dammit I wanted it to work.
Well now it does work, I installed
VLC and it works fine. The fact that dvd's didn't play right and my
sound card wasn't chiming while
listening to mp3's made me think I was having an overal sound issue. The
dvd movie would continue to play
but the sound stopped + the gaim app and mplayer playing mp3's (separate
from playing dvd's of course) all seemed like
I was having a showstopper. It turns out, thanks to your email, that I
needed esound, and on my own I found out that I needed to
install VLC. Actually the suggestion for VLC came from fedora forums.
Note to other newbies: I learned about VLC from fedora forums, I learned
countless things from this plug mailing list, other things from #fedora
on freenode, and even more from the fedora mailing lists. I have been
reading linux pdf docs and going to plug meetings. I learn from going to
installfests and actually installing linux on other people's computers.
I installed linux at an installfest before I even learned the basic unix
commands. I've thrown myself into linux and I am very pleased. My laptop
now pretty much works like xp does. minor bugs to deal with like drivers
not available (int. wifi and modem). But that's, of course, nothing
compared to having full driver support and a vast array of spyware and
virus' to contend with in windoze. What Dennis said about Living with
Linux and Slaying one Dragon at a time is correct. It takes time. It's
as simple as that.
mike h
Dennis Kibbe wrote:
>On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:44:51 -0700 (MST)
>"der.hans" <PLUGd@LuftHans.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>>While CLI is awesome, it is not the only way to run GNU/Linux. I've
>>been GNU/Linux only on the desktop since 1996 or 1997. That includes my
>>laptops.
>>
>>Works great :).
>>
>>There are some issues with hardware support, so you have to be careful
>>what hardware you get. Otherwise it works wonderfully for me.
>>
>>ciao,
>>
>>der.hans
>>--
>>
>>
>
>Time to give this topic a meaningful subject line. <g>
>
>Mike, The ancient Chinese proverb "Slay only one dragon at a time" applies to Linux. As long as the important things (network, video, sound) work on your computer under Linux. You're off to a good start.
>
>I found that my patience and study have been rewarded by reducing the number of things that need fixing.
>
>Of course, if you've got a "show-stopper" issue you may need to wait things out until it's included in Linux.
>
>If I remember right your original question was about sound not being shared between applications. I seem to remember that esound having something to do with this. Ah, yes. Here is the description:
>
>"EsounD, the Enlightened Sound Daemon, is a server process that mixes
>several audio streams for playback by a single audio device. For
>example, if you're listening to music on a CD and you receive a
>sound-related event from ICQ, the two applications won't have to
>jockey for the use of your sound card. Install esound if you'd like
>to let sound applications share your audio device."
>
>Hope that helps,
>
>Dennisk
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