Dear Martin,
Well, I don't know if this is a solution for you, It works for me, at least. Just dont use esd, esd sucks very much, IMHO... ;-) I just use direct ALSA here. I know it makes multi-sound not possible. But hey, I just want to listen some CDs here, not doing any serious multimedia stuff. I'd love to see if anybody has a wonderful setup of a sound server under gnome. (Using jack, maybe?) Best Regards. -arief On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 15:37, Martin Bright wrote: > Hello. This is a problem that I've been tinkering with for a while but > haven't found a good solution to. > > I have an IBM ThinkPad 600E. I have ALSA working (using the CS4236 driver, > not CS4610, as directed by alsaconf). I use APM, and I believe it's not > possible to use ACPI - the kernel puts up some message about the BIOS being > too old. And since I want sound under Gnome, I run esd. > > The problem is that, after I suspend and resume, esd hangs, so badly that > it can't be killed. Then any process that tries to use esd hangs too. > > I have tried doing esdctl standby and esdctl resume. I have tried sending > SIGSTOP and SIGCONT. Neither of these seems to reliably solve the problem. > I've also tried killing esd and respawning it after resume, but then any > running clients (such as Gnome) stop producing sound. Part of the problem > is that the esd documentation is really not that great. > > Has anybody else had this problem, and has anybody managed to solve it > satisfactorily? > > Thanks > Martin Bright > > -- > Martin Bright > Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool >
