[lug] Gnome Issues

[Dan Ferris]

Well we switched to ESD output and everything works.  Before xmms was 
set to OSS output.  I think if it was alsa it might have worked fine.  I 
might have to just compile the alsa output plugin.

Sound daemons suck.

Dan

Hugh Brown wrote:
> 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
>>
>>     
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