esound/GNOME

[Michael Hall <mhall riverside org>]

  Just updated everything here and I have noticed a drastic slowdown in
GNOME starting a session and also running any apps.
  Looking through my session log I see several K of messages:

/dev/dsp: No such device
Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 16bit failed
Trying 44.1Khz, 8bit stereo.
/dev/dsp: No such device
Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 8bit failed
Trying 22.05Khz, 8bit stereo.
<snip>

  On and on trying every known frequency to man and animal in stereo and
mono modes :-) I don't have a sound card and have always just compiled things
with 'disable-esd', etc. when the module supports it and in gnome settings
I just turned off system and event sounds. I've got a ~/.gnome/sound/system
file:

[settings]
start_esd=false
event_sounds=false

  This always seemed to work before and I didn't have problems like I do
now with the slowness starting/opening a session or GNOME app. Is there
something else a person should be setting somewhere to disable sound or
how should someone properly install/configure GNOME for use on a system
without sound ?

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Mike Hall <mhall@riverside.org>, (MH993)   -    http://www.riverside.org
System Administrator (*nix, Perl, CGI hacker, certified OS/2 Specialist)