Hi, I had once the same problem Martin describes, with esd hanging after a suspend/resume. I solved it but I can't remember how. Sorry! :-( I know I've fiddle around with many things and at some point it was working again...
The best I can do now is to give you some hints on my current sound installation. This also answers Arief's request about a gnome sound setup working alright... "lspci" on my HP Omnibook 6100 tells me I have an "ESS Technology ES1988 Allegro-1 (rev 12)". It has limited hardware mixing capabilities with alsa. I use esd, artsd and direct (alsa) access concurrently to the sound card and it works! :-) (with some software mixing...) First, I have replaced the package "libesd0" with "libesd-alsa0". Second, I've installed the following ".asoundrc" file in my home dir. I've found this file somewhere but I can't remember where, so I can't give the credits to the original writer. ========================================================== # ~/.asoundrc pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm "dmixer" } pcm.dsp0 { type plug slave.pcm "dmixer" } pcm.dmixer { type dmix ipc_key 1024 slave { pcm "hw:0,0" period_time 0 period_size 1024 buffer_size 16384 #periods 128 rate 44100 } bindings { 0 0 1 1 } } ctl.mixer0 { type hw card 0 } ========================================================== With this setup, everything works. If I use simultaneously $ esdplay sound.wav & $ artsplay sound.wav & $ aplay sound.wav & I get the same sound played simultaneously 3 times (with a very light delay on the sound produced by the 3 players). I hope this can be of some help to you. If you need some more info let me know. Joao -- Joao Lourenco Tels: (+351) 212 948 536 Dep. Informatica (+351) 212 948 300 FCT / Univ. Nova de Lisboa Ext: 10740 Quinta da Torre Fax: (+351) 212 948 541 P-2829-516 CAPARICA http://www-asc.di.fct.unl.pt/~jml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]