[SDL] SDL and no Window Manager

[Anthony Lewis]

I would try disabling Gnome's sound effects.  Go to the Sound settings 
in Control Center and uncheck "Enable sound server startup".



Robert Diel wrote:

>Tried the whole fuser thing, strangely enough it shows that nothing has
>control of /dev/dsp or /dev/mixer or /dev/audio.  If you can think of
>any other way to see whom is attached to the device I can easily
>reproduce this effect.  It seems that every time I reboot my box I need
>to do this work around because something, probably in the GNOME startup,
>is taking and not letting go of the sound. 
>Robert
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>On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 17:28, Jacek Popławski wrote:
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>>On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 06:18:54PM -0600, Robert Diel wrote:
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>>>    This is hopefully a rather simple question.  If I have an SDL
>>>fullscreen application do I need a window manager to be running.  I know
>>>I need X, but do I need the services of a window manager? 
>>>      
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>>AFAIK you don't need wm at all
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>>>So, my real question is how can I limit sound to my application to ensure
>>>that no process runs off with the sound device.  
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>>On Linux you could use:
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>>fuser /dev/dsp
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