On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 03:20:38AM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > I've been running Woody with a Gnome desktop for a few weeks now and it > seems to work fine. > > Today I had a need to listen to an extended broadcast using realplayer 8 > (I run Galeon and I have installed the appropriate realplayer plugins). > > The broadcast would work fine for maybe 5-10, sometimes 15, minutes at a > time, but then it would hang. The realplayer app would also hang, as > would Galeon itself. Exiting/killing Galeon and realplayer wouldn't > help: when I tried to restart Galeon, Galeon would hang. > > What I had to do was kill esd, then I could restart Galeon and esd and > realplayer and continue listening (although obviously I'd missed a few > minutes). > > This, needless to say, was pretty annoying. > > Does anyone know of any gotchas with ESD in Woody that might cause this > behavior? I see a new ESD in Sid; would it be worthwhile to upgrade to > that version? > > > BTW, I have a Dell Optiplex GX240 with an on-board soundcard using the > I/O Controller Hub; I don't use Alsa I just use the kernel Intel ICH > (i8xx) audio support option and it seems to work fine--at first blush it > seems like an ESD problem not a sound driver problem, but I guess you > never know... Have you told Realplayer to use ESD as output? If not, then Realplayer and esd will be fighting over the device files... IIRC esd will use a "timeout", where it will close the sound device if there is not sound activity after a few secs - this tends to make diagnostics difficult. HTH -- Karl E. Jørgensen karl@jorgensen.com www.karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen
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