Gnome (and Linux) Sound Issues

[Kent Frazier]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 21:42:35 +1100, David Coldrick <coldrick at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, that didn't do much for me. I also was in the state where sound
> generally worked for me except for DVDs, and DVD sound worked if I did
> a killall esd.
> 
> Having followed the advice in the link, I had no sound at all. Trying
> to undo this has not corrected the problem, but rather I now get 100%
> cpu (and still no sound) when I try to play a CD).
> 
> Help!
> 
> Regards,
> David
> 
> 
> On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 23:38:34 -0600, Kent Frazier <kentfrazier at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I also forgot to mention that recently I have to kill ESD before
> > playing movies through totem-xine (or gxine) or else the sound gets
> > out of sync with the video.  I may have managed to solve that problem
> > by following the directions from:
> > http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=8882
> >
> > The audio seems to stay in sync since I tried this.  I set my default
> > sink to ALSA instead of ESD.
> >
> > Just thought it might be relevant to my previous post.
> >
> > Kent.
> > 
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> 

Ahh!  Sorry my links led you astray.  Did you keep a backup of the
original config file?  I just commented out the old version and pasted
in the new, which is often a good idea and can save some heartache. 
Maybe you can delete the config file (backup first) and it will be
recreated.  You may also try running dpkg-reconfigure on the
appropriate package, though I am not sure what package that would be.

I am not sure what the original content of your /etc/esound/esd.conf
was, but here is mine.  If they are the same, this may get you back to
normal:

##  Original Settings
[esd]
auto_spawn=0
spawn_options=-terminate -nobeeps -as 5
spawn_wait_ms=100
## default options are used in spawned and non-spawned mode
default_options=

Good luck.

Kent