Re: sounds in Gnome

[Tim Lewis <talewis worldnet att net>]

Another option to turning off esd (esdctl off) is to start esd as
follows:

esd -as 2 -nobeeps &

Then:

esdctl unlock

This has worked for me, both in freeing the dsp device for other users
and processes, as well as allowing other non-esd aware apps to access
the dsp device through esd.

I am probably way-off in the technical decription of this solution.  I
would like someone to better describe why this works and what it does,
if they can.

Good luck Duncan,
Tim



Duncan Rose wrote:
> 
> Ok, sorted the sound problem. This seems to be a problem with
> enlightenment rather than Gnome (there's more of a learning
> curve, learning a new wm and gnome!).
> 
> gwmpeg/mpg123 are not esd-aware (apparently), so it's necessary
> to turn off esd ("esdctl off") before it will work. It's fine
> now.
> 
> Time to look for an esd aware mpeg player!
> 
> Thanks to all who responded,
> 
>         -Duncan
> 
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