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Re: alsa won't work unless i kill esd



Jacob S wrote:

>On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 10:01:19 +0800 (CST)
>ms linux <deb_milist@yahoo.com.sg> wrote:
>
>>sorry for another trivial question about alsa.
>>i use sid 2.4.27 and gnome for desktop.
>>recently if i want xmms play my mp3s, i have to kill
>>esd first.... :-(
>>this happen since alsa updates to 1.0.6
>>seem that alsa and esd use the same resource (
>>/dev/dsp )
>>maybe
>
>
>This sounds more like xmms is trying to play directly
through alsa,
>instead of esd. Check which output plugin you have
xmms set to use - you
>should be using the eSound output plugin.
>
>If everything looks ok there, make sure you have
libesd-alsa0 installed,
>instead of libesd0 (the latter is for esd to use OSS
sound drivers, the
>former for esd to use alsa sound drivers).

changing to esd plugins = still won't work
got to kill esd ... <snip>
before alsa update to 1.0.6, i used to make xmms use
alsa directly via plugins. and it worked fine. xmms
played mp3s either gnome sound schemes.
yes, i have libesd-alsa0 installed.

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