esound clobbers OSS?
My system is stock Sarge, with Gnome and stock Debian kernel.
I rarely use OSS programs, and when I did try to use one recently I found
that OSS was not working. After some investigation I found that it started
working again after I unchecked the "enable sound server startup" option in
the Gnome applications->desktop preferences->sound dialog box. Now all
programs seem to have sound, but I can only run one OSS program at a time.
(ALSA programs still share the soundcard.)
The esound related packages installed are: esound, esound-clients, and
esound-common. I learned that ensound conflicts with esound-alsa,
and since I use ALSA I speculated that I should be running esound-alsa
instead of esound, but when I tried to install esound-alsa I got the
following error message:
Package esound-alsa is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
esound
E: Package esound-alsa has no installation candidate
Now I am speculating that during one of my routine security updates
esound-alsa got replaced with esound, and is the cause of my OSS problems.
Thanks for any help.
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