Brendan J Simon wrote: > > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > >> Is esound known to be broken on powerpc ? > >> Is there a better sound daemon that is recommended for powerpc ? > > > > It's known to have caused _me_ endless troubles ;) It's possible that E > > is trying to output sound via esound, causing the clicks. Can you try > > removing esound and disabling E & gnome sound to see if it helps ? (At > > least, we would then know if esound is the culprit). > > I tried disabling gnome sound in the gnome control panel and it doesn't > seem to make any difference. I haven't rebooted my machine or restarted > my X server. I'll try that soon.
You could try just killing the esd daemon. > I tried removing esound with "apt-get remove esound" and for some reason apt > wants to *remove everything*. This seems very wrong to me. What's going on > here ???? gnome-bin depends on esound. Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
