On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 15:38, Shaun Oliver wrote: > try looking at your /etc/esound/esd.conf > I think that's the properpath, > and comment it out entirely
The trick is, as Jeff said, to specify that the sound server should not
start in the Gnome>DesktopPreferences>Sound dialog. Commenting out
every line in the /etc/esound/esd.conf seemed to have no effect :-/
> if your sound card is a multi channel card you won't need esd.
> hth
It seems that my card is not multi-channel, then, because if I try and
play a .au file with aplay while xmms is playing something (say,
Berlioz), aplay hangs until I stop xmms playing (I don't have to close
xmms) and then aplay proceeds to play the .au file.
Jeff suggested using esd for everything, but then I have to presumably
explicitly configure everything (e.g. zine, ogle, xmms, aplay, mpg123
etc ...) to use esd. I'm kind of surprised that there is not some
Debian-wide policy on this such that everything is configured to use a
default setup that will just work (once the right modules are loaded).
I'm up and listening to music now. Xine works too. I don't do these
two things at the same time, so I'm happy enough for now :-)
Many thanks for the help Jeff & Shaun.
All the best,
Bruce
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