The other night I tried converting from the kernel sound drivers to the ALSA drivers so I could get more features from my SBlive! (Abilty to access the rear channels independant of front channels to be exact.) I installed the alsa-base/utils/source/conf .debs as relevant for the 0.9-bet10 ALSA release, libesd-alsa0, and libasound1 and 2.
Anyway, esound didn't want to work (my desktop is enlightenment only, no gnome stuff), it didn't seem to autospawn, but I think I sorted that out. Even so, if I ran it manually, then got into Enlightenment, E dies with a segemntation fault, after playing the startup sound. Trying to ignore the fault just causes enlightenment to die. Other applications which used ALSA seemed to work alright though, through the ALSA layer, and the OSS emulation layer. I even tried removing libesd-alsa0, back to plain OSS libesd0 and using the OSS emulation layer, but that didn't improve things. So I thought I'd remove all the ALSA crap, and just go back to the kernel driver, but the problem still persists. I didn't notice anything in logfiles, and I'm yet to try and strace on Enlightenment starting, but I thought I throw this one to the list to see if it jogged any memories. Enlightenment 0.16 esound 0.2.23-2 Alsa 0.9+beta10-4 I'd also be interested in hearing from anyone who figured out how to use the rear channels of the SBLive!, without them just being stereo mirrors of the front channels. ( i.e /dev/dsp for front, /dev/dsp1 for rear ) that kind of thing. Steve -- Black holes were created when God divided by 0. http://www.helmsdeep.net/capn-k/ Linux | Windows | CAD | Audio Visualisation and more -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
