Re: esound (woody) broken?

[Dietmar <di.oelz@pfeilheim.sth.ac.at>]

Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Did anyone have problems with esound in woody?
>
> I just installed a Creative Ensoniq PCI sound card, and it works well,
> except that when I try to use esound. It plays one second, and then
> repeats that over and over (until I kill esd)... I saw no bug filed
> against esound, and nothing in the docs, so I thought I could be doing
> something wrong.
>
> I also tried to install alsa, but dselect refuses to do that without
> removing a lot of other packages (even when I included libes-alsa). I
> also tried to force it (with Q), but it still wanted to remove the
> packages when I'd install... Strange.
>
> So... Did anyone else have this problem?

As already postet twice, I have problems with sound after installing potato. I'm
using just the same sound card. (Creative PCI 128-Ensoniq 1371) Whenever I use gnome
or sawfish with sound-support everything on my X-server freezes while I play mp3s.
I still didn't found any solution

Cheers,
Dietmar