<quote who="Bruce Badger"> > 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 :-/
Yeah, that won't help. > 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). It's all ugly configuration file stuff, basically. If everything was using the same sound infrastructure, it would be easy, but... Grr. :-) Most of them will talk to esd if you change a config option or use a particular command line parameter. There's an ALSA feature called dmix, which is supposed to do software mixing, but I haven't had much luck with it, once configured (which is ugly in itself). This stuff should just work... :-( - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2005: Canberra, Australia http://linux.conf.au/ "Think video. Think text flickering over your walls. Think games at work. Think anything where a staid, link-based browser is useless." "This person wrote for Ab Fab, right?" - Rich Welykochy -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
