Re: [Evolution] [off-topic] sblive and esd?

[dan hensley att net]

Never mind.  I compiled esound with --enable-alsa=no, and esd
starts up now.  The only problem now is that it won't play Gnome
sounds, not even if I start it manually.  Stupid thing.

Dan

> I know this is off-topic, but I'm not on any other list
> that I can ask this, and I'm hoping someone can give me a
> quick fix...
>
> I just built a system (Athlon 1.2G, Abit KT7A, SBLive
> value).  The problem is that esd does not want to start. 
> I've tried everything I can think of.  I'm using Mandrake
> 8 beta 1 and compiled Gnome from source (some CVS). 
> Sound in general works fine (KDE has no trouble, and I
> can play tuxracer with sound), but for some reason esd
> just doesn't want to work.  I've tried compiling sound
> support as a module and directly into the kernel.  Can
> someone point me to a solution?
>
> Here's what esd tells me:
>
> audio_alsa: no cards found!Audio device open for 44.1Khz,
> stereo, 16bit failed
> Trying 44.1Khz, 8bit stereo.
> audio_alsa: no cards found!Audio device open for 44.1Khz,
> stereo, 8bit failed
> Trying 48Khz, 16bit stereo.
> audio_alsa: no cards found!Audio device open for 44.1Khz,
> stereo, 8bit failed
> Trying 22.05Khz, 8bit stereo.
> audio_alsa: no cards found!Audio device open for
> 22.05Khz, stereo, 8bit failed
> Trying 44.1Khz, 16bit mono.
> audio_alsa: no cards found!Audio device open for 44.1Khz,
> mono, 8bit failed
> Trying 22.05Khz, 8bit mono.
> audio_alsa: no cards found!Audio device open for
> 22.05Khz, mono, 8bit failed
> Trying 11.025Khz, 8bit stereo.
> audio_alsa: no cards found!Audio device open for
> 11.025Khz, stereo, 8bit failed
> Trying 11.025Khz, 8bit mono.
> audio_alsa: no cards found!Audio device open for
> 11.025Khz, mono, 8bit failed
> Trying 8.192Khz, 8bit mono.
> audio_alsa: no cards found!Audio device open for
> 8.192Khz, mono, 8bit failed
> Trying 8Khz, 8bit mono.
> audio_alsa: no cards found!Sound device inadequate for
> Esound. Fatal.
>
> TIA,
> Dan
>
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