I've been using Linux for 6 or 8 years -- without speakers. Today I decided to take a trip on the wild side and install speakers. It has been interesting.
I've been using /usr/bin/gnome-sound-properties (started from Gnome start button via system//preferences/sound (from nu) to test my configuration. From the Sounds tab, all the System Sounds work perfectly. However the Devices tab works fine when ESD (Enlightenment Sound Daemon) is selected and doesn't work at all when "ALSA" is selected. In this case, "doesn't work" means the following dialog is displayed: audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink: Could not open resource for writing. Any tips on what I should check? Question 2: Is either ESD or ALSA to be preferred? Why? Regards, David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
