Even if the below works, you may still have trouble with gnome (at least I do). I find that when I stop esd and restart it, the panel doesn't make its cool sounds anymore--and indeed can freeze up in an effort to play anything!
cheers Richard Robert Guthrie wrote: > On Saturday 30 December 2000 16:39, Felix E. Klee wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I would like to automatically turn off the Enlightenment Sound Deamon > > (esd) and remove the sound modules before suspending my laptop and turn > > everything back on when resuming. Otherwise sound does not work anymore > > after resuming and I have to reload the modules manually. I tried > > putting "esdctl off; modprobe -r i810_audio, etc." into a script in > > /etc/apm/event.d. However this does not seem to work since esdctl is > > executed from the root account and esd was started from a normal user > > account by Gnome. > > > > Did anyone already solve this problem? I appreciate all suggestions! > > > > TIA, > > > > Felix > > I'd suggest using "su flea esdctl on" (replace flea with your username), or > whatever you do to restart esd. If you want a generic solution, use ps to > capture the username associated with esd before you kill it, and when your > computer resumes, read that info from an environment variable. Then the > startup command would go "su $ESDUSER ...". > > -- > Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you > will hear the voice of Satan? > > That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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