Wayne Ward wrote:
Hi, As I said in an earlier e-mail, that i'm getting an error telling me that /dev/dsp can't be found. Is this because that the person putting together this cd had sound compiled in thier kernel.I do not have a sound card on my box and I don't know why gnome is asking for it when i try to start gnome.Is there a file or config that i can pull this out? TIA Wayne
I'm pretty sure that Gnome uses esd (Enlightened Sound Daemon, I believe) as its sound server. (KDE uses artsd.)
Imagine you have sound effects coming from doom, and you want to listen to an Ogg or mp3 file, and your email notification plays a little tune saying you have new mail. Ideally, a sound card could handle all these different inputs, but many can't.
So the sound daemon works as a middle man, handling all the different inputs, and combining them into one stream which the sound card can handle.
In your case, you don't have a sound card, but esd is still loading because that's the default behaviour of Gnome. You'll have to find some way to deactivate esd; there might be a sound server preference somewhere in Gnome's configuration utilities, but not being a Gnome user, I can't really point you any further.
-- Kent