[lug] Gnome Issues

[Hugh Brown]

The way around that would be to get programs to use esd.  I believe xmms
has an esd output plugin.  I'm not sure how you tell Thunderbird to use
esd.

On KDE, you can use artsdsp as a wrapper to get the called program to talk
to artsd instead of trying /dev/dsp directly

Even then, flash still wigs out if I'm running amarok.

Hugh

On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Dan Ferris wrote:

> Ok, his gnome just locked up again.
>
> We killed ESD and voila, everything came back to life right away.
>
> So we noticed that it happened with XMMS playing, and Thunderbird would
> get a new mail message and try to play it's email notification sound.
>
> So it appears that it was contention for the sound card.
>
> Tom, my coworker says that you rock. :)
>
> Dan
>