Sound on Sarge

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 10:54:17AM +0000, Paul King wrote:
> Thanks, Lennart, for the help on the sound. It is now working, but at
> this point it is still a matter of killing esd each time.
> 
> Here is what I did on the command line:
> 
> bash (9) $ lsof | egrep 'dsp|PID'
> lsof: WARNING: can't stat() ext3 file system /dev/.static/dev
>       Output information may be incomplete.
> COMMAND  PID    USER   FD  TYPE  DEVICE  SIZE  NODE NAME
> esd      4055   pking  5w  CHR   14,3    4740       /dev/dsp
> bash (10) $ kill -9 4055
> 
> By killing esd, lots of stuff begins to work, including the volume
> control on the desktop, which used to snap back to zero if you set it to
> anything.
> 
> So, if esd is getting in the way, what could be running it? If I do a
> "grep esd /etc/init.d/*", I get nothing.

I think there is a gnome config option to control if esd should be
started or not when you login to gnome.

Similarly for artsd in kde.

Len Sorensen
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