Re: esd locks the machine up solid...

[David Puryear <dayear codenet net>]

On 09-Mar-99 Peter Petrakis wrote:
> I've had this problem myself on my Alpha. What I do is a cheap hack :).
> Go to /usr/bin and rename esd to _esd. Next gnome-session starts it will
> find that it can't start esound and then disable it. Works for me. BTW
> you wouldn't be happening to be using soudn drivers from 4-front tech
> would you?
> 

I just renamed esd and restarted X. Now enlightenment gives me an error about
can't find esd. I still like to disable/delete wherever enlightenment is getting
info to run esd though. As for gnome-session, I'm not running that since I just
like the panel and gmc.:) As for sound driver, I just compiled kernel with ESS
16** since they didn't have ESS 1938, but it seems to work although I had to add
few lines to /etc/conf.modules.

        Thanks,
        David

> Peter
> 
> David Puryear wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Last week, I think it was Thursday, I did complete cvs rebuild. Since then I
>> haven't tried new compile of Enlightenment until few days a go when I had to
>> reboot. Now when I start Enlightenment, it will automatically start esd,
>> which I
>> don't want to run since it, not just cvs version either, locks up my machine
>> solid when gnome is also running. Only thing I can do is use the power
>> button.:(
>> So, I was wondering which file esd is starting from.
>> 
>> I would give more details/a bug report on esd with gnome locking up my
>> machine,
>> but I never see any kind of errors, just hard locks up. I don't mind running
>> machine without esd since other sound programs that don't depend on esd work
>> fine for me. As for my setup, it is mostly Debian 2.1 with Gnome and
>> Enlightenment from cvs, ESS 19** sound card on Celeron 333.