Re: esd, alsa and APM suspend
Dear Martin,
Well, I don't know if this is a solution for you,
It works for me, at least.
Just dont use esd, esd sucks very much, IMHO... ;-)
I just use direct ALSA here.
I know it makes multi-sound not possible.
But hey, I just want to listen some CDs here, not doing any serious
multimedia stuff.
I'd love to see if anybody has a wonderful setup of a sound server under
gnome. (Using jack, maybe?)
Best Regards.
-arief
On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 15:37, Martin Bright wrote:
> Hello. This is a problem that I've been tinkering with for a while but
> haven't found a good solution to.
>
> I have an IBM ThinkPad 600E. I have ALSA working (using the CS4236 driver,
> not CS4610, as directed by alsaconf). I use APM, and I believe it's not
> possible to use ACPI - the kernel puts up some message about the BIOS being
> too old. And since I want sound under Gnome, I run esd.
>
> The problem is that, after I suspend and resume, esd hangs, so badly that
> it can't be killed. Then any process that tries to use esd hangs too.
>
> I have tried doing esdctl standby and esdctl resume. I have tried sending
> SIGSTOP and SIGCONT. Neither of these seems to reliably solve the problem.
> I've also tried killing esd and respawning it after resume, but then any
> running clients (such as Gnome) stop producing sound. Part of the problem
> is that the esd documentation is really not that great.
>
> Has anybody else had this problem, and has anybody managed to solve it
> satisfactorily?
>
> Thanks
> Martin Bright
>
> --
> Martin Bright
> Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool
>
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