Re: esd, alsa and APM suspend
Hi,
I had once the same problem Martin describes, with esd hanging after a
suspend/resume. I solved it but I can't remember how. Sorry! :-( I
know I've fiddle around with many things and at some point it was
working again...
The best I can do now is to give you some hints on my current sound
installation. This also answers Arief's request about a gnome sound
setup working alright...
"lspci" on my HP Omnibook 6100 tells me I have an "ESS Technology ES1988
Allegro-1 (rev 12)". It has limited hardware mixing capabilities with
alsa. I use esd, artsd and direct (alsa) access concurrently to the
sound card and it works! :-) (with some software mixing...)
First, I have replaced the package "libesd0" with "libesd-alsa0".
Second, I've installed the following ".asoundrc" file in my home dir.
I've found this file somewhere but I can't remember where, so I can't
give the credits to the original writer.
==========================================================
# ~/.asoundrc
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixer"
}
pcm.dsp0 {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixer"
}
pcm.dmixer {
type dmix
ipc_key 1024
slave {
pcm "hw:0,0"
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_size 16384
#periods 128
rate 44100
}
bindings {
0 0
1 1
}
}
ctl.mixer0 {
type hw
card 0
}
==========================================================
With this setup, everything works. If I use simultaneously
$ esdplay sound.wav &
$ artsplay sound.wav &
$ aplay sound.wav &
I get the same sound played simultaneously 3 times (with a very light
delay on the sound produced by the 3 players).
I hope this can be of some help to you. If you need some more info let
me know.
Joao
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