Re: ALSA: XMMS works after alsaconf - after reboot XMMS hangs again

[Hannes Mayer <debiandude@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:48:31 +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:30:11 +0100, Hannes Mayer wrote:
> > When I do "alsaconf" XMMS works, but after rebooting it freezes when
> > trying to play a file. "alsaconf" again and it works.
> 
> Probably a program such as esd or arts opens the sound device and prevents
> xmms from accessing it at the same time.  Running alsaconf does
> "/etc/init.d/alsa force-unload" which kills that program; then xmms can
> open the device.
> 
> Assuming that esd is the one opening the device, you should select the esd
> output plugin in xmms.  Then it won't block trying to play.

YEAH!!! Sometimes it can be so easy ;-)
Thank you very much Thomas!!!!!!
GNOME loaded esd by default and that was blocking ALSA.
Either killing esd makes XMMS (ALSA plugin) work, or switching to the
eSound plugin in XMMS works too.

Is there any drawback of using eSound instead of ALSA ?
Or does eSound utilize ALSA ?

Thanks again & best regards,
Hannes.