Re: Sound initialization (alsaconf) difficulty

[Russ Cook <russcook@mbo.net>]

Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 13:21:32 -0600, Russ Cook wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>   
> > You were right on all counts.  Killing esd restored sound on
> > my system.  I don't log in via gdm.  I start up in text mode,
> > and run 'startx' to start X11.  Gnome comes up with it.  Now
> > I need to learn what the pros and cons are of letting esd
> > run, and how to make every other sound app play well
> > with it.
> >
> > Thanks for your help!
> >     
>
> You are welcome. Here are some suggestions for further reading:
>
> http://help.lockergnome.com/linux/Gnome-ESD-sound-events-ALSA-working-ftopict478820.html
> http://seehuhn.de/pages/alsa
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=36652
>
>   
Visiting http://help.lockergnome.com resulted in my learning that
I needed to replace libesd0 with libesd-alsa0.  The latter allows
multiple applications to use the sound system simultaneously.
Problem solved.  Thank you again!