On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 05:52:57PM -0400, dman wrote: > Normally esd is started when you start up gnome. There is a way to > disable it, I think, because I don't get error messages on my > workstation (has no sound card). esd will keep the sound card "in > use" and the theory is that all applications will request sound to be > played through esd, not go straight to the hardware. esd then > multiplexes the waves so that you get all of them simultaneously. [note: i didn't add solved to the subject because the problem is just avoided, not actually solved] ditching esd (use gnome configuration tool - multimedia settings) "solves" the problems for now.. man pages and other doc for esd/esound isn't too great, i didn't find a homepage - but didn't look too hard yet.. it is 0.x version software after all, maybe it just needs some work.. thanks to everyone who gave a hand.. frank.
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