Yes, I'd be willing to help you test a fix.
However, ESound doesn't require GNOME, so you should be able to apt-get install esound and then start the sound daemon with "esd". This should make it simple for you to test your fix yourself.
As for the implementation, I don't have much experience with neither sound in general nor ESound in particular, but there are two ways I can come up with for doing this.
The first is to use SDL for the sound. AFAIU that should give you sound server detection and integration "for free".
The second (more scriptable, possibly a simpler implementation) would be to use esddsp ("apt-get install esound-clients" first). Its man page is great :-).
Regards //Johan
-----Original Message----- From: H. S. Teoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:21:15 -0800 Subject: Bug#299088: xscavenger: Want sound daemon friendly sound
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 05:59:15PM +0100, Johan Walles wrote: [...]
I'm running GNOME. For GNOME to be able to play system sounds, Ihave
the "esd" sound daemon running.
If I start xscavenger, I get no sound.
If I first kill esd and then start xscavenger I get sound.
I'd like xscavenger to automatically detect there's a sound daemon running, and talk nicely to it.
[...]
Currently, xscavenger uses /dev/dsp directly, which is probably why you have to kill esd first.
Also, I don't have GNOME on my desktop; would you be willing to help me with testing the fix? Thanks.
T
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