ALSA and ESD

[Benjamin Roe]

I'm trying to get Esound working with my Muse Lt card (snd-cmipci ALSA
module). Playback using ALSA works fine, but esd refuses to start (error
message below). Esd worked fine in my previous distro.

On a related question, is it possible to get software mixing working in
ALSA on Ubuntu - I've created the required asound.conf in /etc
and /etc/alsa/0.9, but it doesn't seem to work.

I think the problem is that esd is version 0.2.29, which apparently uses
an outdated ALSA API.


bdr at arthurdent:~$ esd -d default 
- using device default
Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 16bit failed
Trying 44.1Khz, 8bit stereo.
Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 8bit failed
Trying 48Khz, 16bit stereo.
Audio device open for 48Khz, stereo,16bit failed
Trying 22.05Khz, 8bit stereo.
Audio device open for 22.05Khz, stereo, 8bit failed
Trying 44.1Khz, 16bit mono.
Audio device open for 44.1Khz, mono, 8bit failed
Trying 22.05Khz, 8bit mono.
Audio device open for 22.05Khz, mono, 8bit failed
Trying 11.025Khz, 8bit stereo.
Audio device open for 11.025Khz, stereo, 8bit failed
Trying 11.025Khz, 8bit mono.
Audio device open for 11.025Khz, mono, 8bit failed
Trying 8.192Khz, 8bit mono.
Audio device open for 8.192Khz, mono, 8bit failed
Trying 8Khz, 8bit mono.