On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 15:31 -0400, H. S. wrote: > Apparently, _Eric Gaumer_, on 24/10/04 15:14,typed: > >> > >>When is do 'ps uax | grep esd' i see an esd session from the last user > >>that had first logged in. Also, xmms does not work anymore. Killing esd > >>solves the xmms problem but Gnome system sounds do not work then. What > >>am I missing? > > > > > > When a user logs out, esd should be killed. It sounds like you have a > > stale socket from an old session or different user. > > Yes, it should be killed. Is that a bug in Sid? Not to my knowledge but you can check the bug reports. I'm using Sid on a PPC so it may be an issue relative to x86. No problems like that here an I'm up to date on every package as of this morning. > > > > As for xmms... you just need to change the output plugin under settings > > to use esound. > > > > I could do that. But how does that relate to Alsa? If I install esound, > can I just uninstall Alsa altogether? I think you are confusing the two. Alsa is a sound architecture but esound is a sound daemon. Alsa makes sounds where as esound plays more of a traffic cop role. Bottom line is that they serve two different purposes when dealing with sound. Alsa plays the driver or module role. Someday it might be able to do the job of a sound daemon as well but I don't think this is the intent of the project. > > Conversely, how do I make system sounds of gnome use Alsa instead of > esound? This way I can get rid of esound and keep Alsa. Nope. When you say "use alsa" you are just eliminating the sound daemon but without a sound daemon, only one thing could use the sound card at a time. Esound is comparable to Arts not alsa... -- Eric Gaumer <gaumerel@ecs.fullerton.edu>
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