>> I'm trying to remove all digital alteration of the sound on my >> music server before it hits the USB DAC. I have no jack, no >> pulseaudio, and I think I should remove esound. There doesn't >> seem to be an /etc/init.d script for it though. > > At my site it's called /etc/init.d/esound. > Perhaps you'd someday removed it accidently ? > >> I've removed it from my USE flags, and un-emerged it, but now >> I'm curious. > > That useflag (IMHO) only affects other applications which might > be able to feed their audio to esd. So if you disable this useflag > (and dont forget to rebuild ;-p), the app won't try to connect > to esd anymore. So, if nobody uses esd, you can remove it.
I see it now. Thanks a lot. - Grant > BTW: (OT) I'm currently writing an tiny and network agnostic > (9P based) audio server which should be capable of being the > only application interface (making app-internal driver layers > obsolete) and optionally can support other protocols (eg. esound). > If anyone's interested in it, just let me know :) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
