I never thought I'd be complaining when I finally got sound to work, but I guess I'm not so easy to please... there's a tiny problem with esd that I hope someone can help me with.
I'm using Gnome as my desktop, and I have enabled sound for window events. It all works nicely except for this annoying "click" that accompanies each sound. I've investigated this and found that there is an esd option that makes the daemon shut down after 2 seconds of inactivity. The "click" is the sound of the daemon starting up again. I've increased the delay by various amounts, but found that in the end, having a short timeout is not desireable, since the esd startup click is just too annoying. I set the delay to 30 minutes, which kind of fixes the problem, but now the problem is replaced by a new one. If I log out, and my wife logs in inside of half an hour, her desktop can not connect to the sound daemon. The problem is that my esd instance is still running, she doesn't have authorization to use it, so she can't connect to it. I can use a virtual terminal to log in and kill the daemon, again solving the problem, but this is a bit messy. I can't kill it before I log out, because I have panel applets like the sound monitor which complain and then remove themselves from the panel if the daemon isn't running. The whole thing smacks of "there must be an easy way to fix this", as it seems whatever I do, just introduces a further complication. Six months ago I would have been glad to have problems like this! Now, it's starting to get old... Please help! -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "Linux - the choice of a GNU generation!"
