No sound after updating to polypaudio

[Justin Mason]

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Santiago Erquicia writes:
> After today's update to polypaudio I don't have sound anymore.
> Rhythmbox says "Could not open resource for writing".  I still can hear
> gnome sounds though.
> 
> Do I need to apply any change to make it work?

Sounds like Rhythmbox isn't going through esd or polypaudio.  if you do a
"ps auxww" do either of those processes show up?  (they should.) if you
run "gstreamer-properties", is the output set to "ESD - Enlightenment
Sound Daemon"? (should be!)

> My soundcard is one of those problematic ones AC97.  I cannot change the
> multimedia default sink to alsa because it says that the resource is
> being used.  This soundcard cannot mix sound on hardware.

the wonderful world of software mixing ;)  I *finally* got this all
working last year.   Here's a quick write-up of the config changes I made
to do this:

  http://taint.org/wk/AlsaSoftwareMixing

- --j.
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