Re: Sound card not working

[Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com>]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 11:01:30AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
>   
> > Mike McCarty wrote:
> >
> > [that the sound card isn't working]
> >
> > Ok, after much fooling around, I find that ESD is running, and
> > has the DSP open. So, I killed it, 
> >     
>
> it should be taken out and shot, IMHO.
>
> we see so many problems related to esd not playing nicely with others.
Yes, that is what I did with artsd from KDE.  I made sure that I purged 
ALL of KDE and GNOME.  Then, when I switched from Sarge to Etch I did a 
clean install (first time in 8 or 9 years) I made sure not to install 
any DTE so as to make sure that there was no cruft lying around.

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Marc Shapiro
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