[kde-freebsd] KSayit questions... .

[Bartosz Fabianowski]

> Then I'm assuming even *with* vhans=4, ESDand aRts support other 
> protocols:: yes?

I think you misunderstood what Michael meant to say. Normally, users are 
expected to run one sound daemon (artsd *or* esd, depending on their 
chosen desktop), which then happily hogs /dev/dsp. If people want to run 
more than one sound server (as you do), they need a way around the 
problem that there is only one /dev/dsp.

On FreeBSD, vchans are an elegant solution. arts and esd can use 
different channels and don't conflict with each other. But what about 
systems where vchans are not available or disabled by the administrator? 
Here, the aRts developers had an idea: artsd does not connect to 
/dev/dsp directly, but sends its output to another sound daemon, such as 
esd or NAS, instead. So what you get is this chain:

* KDE applications connect to artsd
* artsd connects to esd
* GNOME applications connect to esd
* esd connects to /dev/dsp

This way, KDE apps and GNOME apps can play sound through their favorite 
daemons, all happily sharing one /dev/dsp.

And I think with this, we can probably close the topic. It's drifting 
far away from being KDE related and does not really fit this mailing 
list anymore ;).

- Bartosz