On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 03:12:20AM +0200, Frank Preut wrote: | On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 05:52:57PM -0400, dman wrote: | > Normally esd is started when you start up gnome. There is a way to | > disable it, I think, because I don't get error messages on my | > workstation (has no sound card). esd will keep the sound card "in | > use" and the theory is that all applications will request sound to be | > played through esd, not go straight to the hardware. esd then | > multiplexes the waves so that you get all of them simultaneously. | | [note: i didn't add solved to the subject because the problem is just | avoided, not actually solved] | | ditching esd (use gnome configuration tool - multimedia settings) | "solves" the problems for now..
At least you aren't having crashes :-). | man pages and other doc for esd/esound isn't too great, i didn't | find a homepage - but didn't look too hard esd is part of GNOME so a search on gnome.org is likely to yield some results. I just did "esd esound site:gnome.org" in google and got (among others) the following : developer.gnome.org/doc/whitepapers/esd/ http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-devel-list/2000-July/msg00265.html mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-sound-list/2000-November/msg00013.html (esd on windows) | yet.. it is 0.x version software after all, maybe it just needs some | work.. Likely. -D
