Re: [gentoo-user] ESD vs ALSA

2007-01-09 Thread Bruno Espinoza
About ESD, well I read somewhere that is deprecated and if it continue here is only for compatibility isues. ALSA support more sound cards and also is besta managed by the laste kernel versions. Actually I tried to install alsa in my machine. I recomend it, because ESD has some problems and now

Re: [gentoo-user] ESD vs ALSA

2007-01-08 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 17:56:15 -0800 Mark Knecht wrote: Sorry - meant to attach this also. Make sure you're building certain things with the alsa USE flag and preferably with the esd flag turned off. At least that's what I do: [ebuild R ] media-sound/esound-0.2.36-r2 USE=alsa ipv6 tcpd

Re: [gentoo-user] ESD vs ALSA

2007-01-08 Thread Mark Knecht
Sorry, You're right about the flags. It's 'esd' vs. 'eds'. My mistake. Sorry. As I said I do not use Gnome System Sounds. In the Gnome Preferences menu if I choose 'Sounds' and then the 'Sounds' tab I do not have 'Enable sound software mixing (ESD)' enabled. - Mark On 1/8/07, David Relson

Re: [gentoo-user] ESD vs ALSA

2007-01-08 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 06:08:32 -0800 Mark Knecht wrote: Sorry, You're right about the flags. It's 'esd' vs. 'eds'. My mistake. Sorry. As I said I do not use Gnome System Sounds. In the Gnome Preferences menu if I choose 'Sounds' and then the 'Sounds' tab I do not have 'Enable sound

[gentoo-user] ESD vs ALSA

2007-01-07 Thread David Relson
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

Re: [gentoo-user] ESD vs ALSA

2007-01-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On 1/7/07, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] ESD vs ALSA

2007-01-07 Thread Mark Knecht
Sorry - meant to attach this also. Make sure you're building certain things with the alsa USE flag and preferably with the esd flag turned off. At least that's what I do: [ebuild R ] media-sound/esound-0.2.36-r2 USE=alsa ipv6 tcpd -debug 0 kB [ebuild R ] gnome-base/control-center-2.16.2