Re: [gentoo-user] ESD vs ALSA

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>]

Sorry - meant to attach this also. Make sure you're building certain
things with the alsa USE flag and preferably with the esd flag turned
off. At least that's what I do:

[ebuild   R   ] media-sound/esound-0.2.36-r2  USE="alsa ipv6 tcpd -debug" 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] gnome-base/control-center-2.16.2  USE="alsa -debug -eds" 0 kB


On 1/7/07, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/7/07, David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com> wrote:
> > I've been using Linux for 6 or 8 years -- without speakers.  Today I
> > decided to take a trip on the wild side and install speakers.  It has
> > been interesting.
> >
> > I've been using /usr/bin/gnome-sound-properties (started from Gnome
> > start button via system//preferences/sound (from nu) to test my
> > configuration.  From the Sounds tab, all the System Sounds work
> > perfectly.  However the Devices tab works fine when ESD (Enlightenment
> > Sound Daemon) is selected and doesn't work at all when "ALSA" is
> > selected.  In this case, "doesn't work" means the following dialog is
> > displayed:
> >
> >   audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512!
> >   audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink:
> >   Could not open resource for writing.
> >
> > Any tips on what I should check?
>
> I've not done exactly what you are doing but make sure that Alsa is
> selected in the Sound prefernces. Also, if ESD has been running then
> it will likely block Alsa from getting to the sound cards. Make sure
> that the ESD daemon has been killed.
>
>
> >
> > Question 2:  Is either ESD or ALSA to be preferred?  Why?
>
> I would think Alsa since it's widely supported and they pretty quickly
> take care of things when you have problems or new hardware comes out.
> Since ESD is Gnome specific (I think) then if you switched
> environments - to say fluxbox or something lighter, or KDE on the
> heavy end) then you'd have more fooling around to do.
>
> I thought there was a way to tell ESD to use Alsa but I don't really
> know. I don't use any system sounds in Gnome myself.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Mark
>
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > David
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