[wellylug] Johnsonville WellyLUG Meeting - Success

[Leo]

Rob Giltrap wrote:
> FYI,
> 
> Our first meeting back at Jville was quite sucessful.
> 
> Ten people turned up, from a one week linux newbie to some seasoned
> professionals.
> 
> Topics discussed included:
> - Getting the sound in Tuxracer working on a Hoary/Ubuntu install
> - A good distro to run on a P3-450 with 128MB of memory
> - Getting a USB bluetooth connector working
> - Looking at a new all in one printer/fax/scanner/phone/barbeque/steak
> knife device.
> 
> The consensus was that we should make it a regular affair so I will be
> checking with the Jville community centre what nights we can do (though
> we are going to try for Mondays)
> 
> Cheers, Rob.
> 
> 
Since dmix was also mentioned in the discussion about sound here's a link with
some information about it.
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=DmixPlugin
Here's some further information about using esd and dmix for those applications
that desire esd over alsa, eg, gnome games! It contains Ubuntu references but it
looks like you can safely ignore them for you specific distribution.
http://taint.org/wk/AlsaSoftwareMixing
Of specific note is how it says to use 'aoss esd' - instead of just plain 'esd'.

Rob, looks like you can just keep esd disabled from the gnome-sound setup but
add 'aoss esd' to your session management to load when you login.
Probably want to pass the -nobeeps option too. See above links.