Re: esd == bad_sound

["Jesse D . Sightler" <jsight pair com>]

Have you tried Kernel 2.2.1?

On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 16:13:19 Eric Wood wrote:
> I start esd and it sounds of a loud and endless screeching noises -
> sounds horrible.  I have to kill the esd process to get it to quit
> blasting my speakers.  My ESS sound card works with everything else
> except esd.  Any ideas?  thanks,
> -eric wood
> 
> mozart@windsor.igs.net wrote:
> > 
> > Unfortunately I've been having the same problems as he has with ESD. I didn't
> > mention it on the mailing list because I assumed other people had the same
> > problem, I mean, the sound quality is so ugly at moments i couldn't imagine
> > other people weren't having the same problems, an in fact I've talked to a few
> > other people that have the same problems.
> > 
> > Basically for me, ESd works great when cpu usage is at 0%, anything after that,
> > it sucks, plain and simple, mp3's turn into lumpy and bumpy sound mungles,
> > gnome sound events are delayed *SECONDS*.
> > 
> > I tried finding a solution to the problem as well, so i switched from my SB
> > AWE32, to a sb 16 pnp, same thing. Owell, esd isn't that important to me, i can
> > live without it.
> 
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