Re: Annoying sound problem in Woody
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 02:54:40PM -0400, Juergen Fiedler wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 14:34, S?bastien Plante wrote:
> > When X is running, the command 'cat /etc/motd > /dev/dsp' hangs: I must
> > control-c to stop it.
> >
> > When X is not running, I get a small 'static' sound.
>
> You have gnome running? Most likely, esd has taken over /dev/dsp. See
> whether 'killall esd' changes the situation. If this is the case, you
> can solve the problem by:
>
> a) Only using esd compatible software (xmms, for example, can be set to
> use esd for output)
>
> b) Not running esd. You can either just uninstall it os tell Gnome not
> to use it. The latter is done by unchecking 'Enable Sound Server
> Startup' in Settings>Multimedia>Sound.
Or c) using esddsp as a wrapper for things that want to talk to /dev/dsp
directly.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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