Re: xmms conflics with esd?

[Hanasaki JiJi <hanasaki@hanaden.com>]

Running woody and gnome here with esd.  How can xmms, gnome, xine .. be 
configured to use sound from the kernel instead of esd?  There seems to 
be three types of sound support: arts/esd/kernel is there a good 
overview of each of these and how to get gnome to use them?  pros/cons?

motherboard = asus k7m with via chipset

Thanks

Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 04:36:50PM +0800, Dai Yuwen wrote:
>
> > I find xmms conflics with esd.  Unless I kill esd can xmms play MP3s. I use 
> > woody and gnome1.4.  Any advise?
>
>
> Save yourself the overhead and remove esd?  It's not necissary for
> sound, the kernel does just fine with that.  (Unless your card is
> ancient, like an ISA sb16, in which esound is handy to have since it'll
> allow more than one sound to play at once, but only with esound-aware
> programs.  For everything else, you're kind of limiting yourself).