Getting hopeless on Hoary sound problems

[david]

On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 22:47 +0000, Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 22:22:53 +0000, david <nux at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> > I've had loads of trouble with RealPlayer on Hoary.
> > On a "default" array6 install it installed and worked perectly (on my
> > box) - since then (and leading up to then) I've had nothing but the same
> > hangs or the occasional appearing on the screen several minutes after I
> > tried to invoke it.
> > I do hope the problem gets sorted in time for the final release of Hoary
> > - (cus listening to the BBC while I'm doing stuff is kind of a
> > fundamental necessity for me. The voice of sanity and all that...)
> 
> The suggestion just made a few minutes ago to make auto_spawn=1 in 
> /etc/esound/esd.conf work wonders and fixed a whole series of
> problems. Give it a try.
> > 
> > I've also had endless (similar) problems with beep-media-player & xmms.
> > Rhythmbox works but it's so ugly and boxy that it hurts to look at. (IMO)
> 
> Yes, Rhythmbox ain't pretty, but I like how it works with gnome. I've
> been trying it for a few weeks to see if I can get used to it. It's
> easier to set up for my wife and kids when they want to play their
> iTunes playlists on Linux. I use slimserver to stream from  Windows to
> Linux. I can shave a step or two off the process of getting connected
> to this stream (compared with XMMS) by just adding the stream URL as a
> radio station.
> > 
> > regards
> > 
> > David
> > 

auto_spawn=1

This worked. RealPlayer now starts up more or less instantly. 
Most excellent.
The very calm and oh so authoritative voice of the beeb is heard once
again.

Many thanks for that.

David