Re: gnome and ESD (Was: Re: Where is gnome-audio RPM?)

[Scott Tyson <tysons deepwell com>]

I ahve had prblems with esd.  IF I run esd I cannot use freeamp.  If I kill esd then freeamp plays fine.  Any way to get program s like freeamp and esd to co-exist together.  I also do not use Enlightment I use Windowmaker.

On Sun, 21 Feb 1999 11:56:46 David Wollmann wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Yoni Elhanani wrote:
> 
> > This question is very popular in here.
> > 
> > If anyone with access to the gnome webpages is reading this,
> > please tell rpm installers to get gnome-audio from noarch.
> > 
> > As you can read from what i said, Joe,
> > it's in noarch, since its only sound files that can run anywhere.
> > 
> > btw,
> > why is gnome-audio required for gnome-libs?
> > if i intend to use gnome on a soundless machine,
> > i think i dont need a download of (not sure) 4Mbs.
> > normal soundless users will just get it and slow down traffic on
> > gnome-mirrors
> > which is pretty slow anyway.
> 
> (Since this is my first post to this list, I feel obliged to say thanks to the
> folks who are working on gnome. I just built the latest release and I have to
> say that I'm impressed. I only wish I had more time to work with it.)
> 
> As far as I can tell, esd only supports 16-bit audio playback. gnome-audio
> includes only 16-bit wavs. There are lots of us out here who are stuck with
> lame-ass audio cards that don't support 16-bit playback. I don't have time to
> do anything about adding 8-bit support to esd, but I can certainly fire up sox
> and convert the gnome-audio wavs to 8-bit. Would it be likely that the 8-bit
> versions would be included in a future distribution?
> 
> 
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