Re: ALSA and esd

[tal@libranetlinux.com (Tal Danzig)]

ESD is the Enlightened Sound Daemon.
It is designed so that multiple programs can play sound through the same
device.
eg:  play MP3s with XMMS while hearing window manager sound effects.

You must be running a program that requires ESD and automatically starts it.
I know that Enlightenment (if you have sound effects turned on) and I think
GNOME use ESD.

What I try to do is use programs that use ESD when I play sounds.
XMMS and RealPlayer can both be configured to use ESD.
If I need to play a sound file from the command line I use esdplay.

Hope that helps.  If you still don't want ESD to run by default you may want
to try and track down what program is starting it.

Final tip:
if you need multiple users to be able to play to the same esd daemon run:
esdctl unlock
as the user which the esd daemon is running under.

- Tal



On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 06:43:54PM -0500, Uzoma Nwosu wrote:
> 
> 
> I've been running 1.9.0 for a little over a week now.  I am fairly happy 
> with it.  I just wanted to share one of the quirks that I experienced as a 
> newbie:
> 
> I don't know if anyone else has this problem but 'esd -no beeps' seems to 
> be running on startup.  It conflicts with whatever ALSA has configured for 
> sound for a Yamaha opl3-sa2.  Once I kill the esd process, everything is 
> fine.
> 
> Does anyone know where this processis started?  I looked in the inittab but 
> nothing.  I must be missing something...
> 
> Uzoma
> 
> 

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