Re: esd problem

[Michael Lausch <mla gams co at>]

>>>>> "Yo" == Yo 'Ric Dude <ericmit@ix.netcom.com>
>>>>> wrote the following on Thu, 03 Dec 1998 15:59:16 +0000

Yo> Michael Lausch wrote:
>> 
>> I installed ALSA and the esd suddenly needs the alsa library. I
>> thought sound system specific is only in the server (esd)?
>> 
>> i looked into the makefile and found that audio.o is put into  the
>> client lib. Is this on purpose?

Yo> Esd has a "fallback" feature, where if you try to play 
Yo> an audio stream locally, and cannot successfully contact
Yo> an esd server, it will go directly to the audio card.

Yo> There is a configure option (--disable-alsa) if you do not want to 
Yo> use the alsa drivers.

oh, i want to use the alsa driver.
I lokked around a little bit in the gnome-core sources and found that
rebuilding gnome-core changes the gnome-config program so that the
correct libraries are used.

Wouldn't it be much simpler to call esd-config in the gnome-config
shell script?
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