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>7.1. Using independent sound cards</H1
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>In case you do not use devfs, you may need to create additional device files. Take a look at <A
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>7.1.1. Using aRts daemon</H2
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>We have to specify different sound devices for the different Xsessions/Displays. This is done by using the following options of aRts daemon (<A
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>By OSS-free sound driver:</P
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>-D /dev/dsp[n]</PRE
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>where n is the number of the sound card.</P
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>By Alsa sound driver:</P
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>-a alsa -D hw:[n],0</PRE
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>where n is sound card id.</P
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>Add these lines to your Window Manager start-up script (of course, with the proper arguments for your setup):</P
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> real_display=`echo $DISPLAY | sed "s/://" | sed "s/\..*//"`
case "$real_display" in
0)
artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -D /dev/dsp -s 5 -m artsmessage -l 3 -f &
;;
1)
artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -D /dev/dsp1 -s 5 -m artsmessage -l 3 -f &
;;
2)
artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -a alsa -D hw:4,0 -s 5 -m artsmessage -l 3 -f &
;;
esac
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>And at the end of the file:</P
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>artsshell -q terminate</PRE
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>Here is an example for <TT
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>/usr/X11R6/bin/startenlightenment</TT
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> #!/bin/sh
# License: GPL
real_display=`echo $DISPLAY | sed "s/://" | sed "s/\..*//"`
case "$real_display" in
0)
artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -D /dev/dsp -s 5 -m artsmessage -l 3 -f &
;;
1)
artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -D /dev/dsp1 -s 5 -m artsmessage -l 3 -f &
;;
2)
artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -a alsa -D hw:2,0 -s 5 -m artsmessage -l 3 -f &
;;
esac
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artsshell -q terminate
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>This will start 3 aRts daemons for 3 X servers.</P
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>Daemon will use the first OSS sound device for the 1st X server.</P
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>Daemon will use the second OSS sound device for the 2nd X server.</P
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>Daemon will use the Alsa sound device for the 3rd X server (requires feedback).</P
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