Re: Powerbook still pops and clicks

[Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch>]

Brendan J Simon wrote:
> 
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> >> Is esound known to be broken on powerpc ?
> >> Is there a better sound daemon that is recommended for powerpc ?
> >
> > It's known to have caused _me_ endless troubles ;) It's possible that E
> > is trying to output sound via esound, causing the clicks. Can you try
> > removing esound and disabling E & gnome sound to see if it helps ? (At
> > least, we would then know if esound is the culprit).
> 
> I tried disabling gnome sound in the gnome control panel and it doesn't
> seem to make any difference.  I haven't rebooted my machine or restarted
> my X server.  I'll try that soon.

You could try just killing the esd daemon.

> I tried removing esound with "apt-get remove esound" and for some reason apt
> wants to *remove everything*. This seems very wrong to me.  What's going on
> here ????

gnome-bin depends on esound.


Michel


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