[CF-Devel] Sound

[Mark Wedel]

dnh wrote:
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      I am running debian and I recently got my whole cvs thing figured out. Now
     
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      when the client starts this operation 'cfsndserv' it blocks out all other
     
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      sound requests. The only way I can get sound to work again is to kill that
     
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      process. I am not sure if this is only a problem I am getting, but it
     
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      means I can't use sound... annoying.. maybe ;).
     
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      Any ideas why this is happening?
     
     
 I take this to mean that once cfsndserv starts up, other applications can not
play sounds, but crossfire sounds still play.

 The simple answeer is this is really a OS/sound device limitation issue.  Some
sound implementations can have multiple applications opening the same device,
while others can only have one application playing a sound at a time.  Other
than crossfire not opening a sound device (and thus not playing sounds), there
really isn't much that can be done to improve this.