Re: ESD hangs

[Derek Glidden <dglidden illusionary com>]

Derek Glidden wrote:
> 
> I've been trying GNOME from CVS for a few weeks now and on every build
> when esd is run, it makes its startup beeps and then just sits there. If
> I run xosview, I can see the IRQ used by the soundcard is lit up
> continuously.  esdctl commands always fail and the only way to get the
> soundcard back is to kill -9 esd.  These are essentially "stock" RedHat
> 5.2 systems with 2.0.36 kernels, compiling GNOME from a fresh cvs co,
> and this happens on two different machines - both with sound systems
> that work fine under Linux otherwise - one is a generic ESS sound chip
> in SB emulation mode and one is a "for-real" SoundBlaster 64AWE.

In response to this query I sent to the GNOME-list I saw a lot of
responses about ESD being installed SUID root but I never saw anything
regarding any possible fixes for the problem I reported, so I'm
reposting...

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