Re: gnome sound

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 03:12:20AM +0200, Frank Preut wrote:
| 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.. 

At least you aren't having crashes :-).

| man pages and other doc for esd/esound isn't too great, i didn't
| find a homepage - but didn't look too hard

esd is part of GNOME so a search on gnome.org is likely to yield some
results.  I just did "esd esound site:gnome.org" in google and got
(among others) the following :

developer.gnome.org/doc/whitepapers/esd/

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-devel-list/2000-July/msg00265.html

mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-sound-list/2000-November/msg00013.html
    (esd on windows)

| yet.. it is 0.x version software after all, maybe it just needs some
| work..

Likely.

-D