esd and sdl_mixer (was: Re: Free beer for a sound advice that helps!)

[Asko Kauppi]

Didn't you get _any_ responses to the message?

I could double that, some fine Finnish beer to go..  (this will become 
a fancy chain letter? :)

My issue:  getting SDL_Mixer and system Ubuntu (Hoary) sounds co-exist.

I did find some esd.conf solutions to this, but what troubles me is no 
clear indication in the Ubuntu Wiki as to the _right_ way to configure 
sounds.  ALSA, ESD, polypaudio.  All are named, and some favor this, 
others..

Could someone with Official Voice give a strong "do this, don't that" 
so that this kind of issues would seize to be on the list?  Thanks.

-ak


18.3.2005 kello 10:50, Christian Wolf kirjoitti:

  Hello,
>
> sound is the issue that possibly drives me away from ubuntu - I have a
> similar problem, I have managed to get SOME sound on my Thinkpad 600E
> with the snd-cs4232 module and a lot of manipulation in the BIOS
> settings.
>
> Now I have system sounds on Gnome and Ubuntu sound theme on Hoary,
> however, no of the applications has sound - somehow the connection to
> ALSA seems broken. I tried various settings in the multimedia and
> sound section, I added software mixing etc etc, still no sound in
> applications such as Firefox, Gnomemeeting etc. XMMS plays mp3, using
> the esound plugin - however, I need ALSA working since all other
> applications obviously need that... It is a pain, especially since I
> want to use the laptop for Skype and Gnomemeeting.....
>
> I also did not manage to record sounds from the micro....
>
> I am still trying because Ubuntu is really fast - way faster than
> comparable distros that use KDE (Mepis, Xandros, SphinxOS,
> PCLinuxOS/MDK). However, sound drives me nuts - In PCLinux OS it took
> me 30 min, in Ubuntu, I am trying since 5 days, have read dozends of
> how-tos and forum mails, and still no full sound.....
>
> Currently I have ESD / Alsa in Multimedia Seetings - the test sound
> works for esdsink, but no sound (but no error message too) for
> alsasrc.
>
> Any suggestions? I will send a beer (of the finest we have here in
> Bavaria) to the person that has an advice that gives me full sound in
> Ubuntu Hoary and micro capabilities!
>
> Here is my /etc/esd/esd.conf, if that matters:
>
> #[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=
> [esd]
> auto_spawn=1
> spawn_options=-terminate -nobeeps -as 2 -d default
> #default
> spawn_wait_ms=100
> # default options are used in spawned and non-spawned mode
> default_options=
>
>
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 07:06:13 +0100, Pierre Maes <piemaes at free.fr> 
> wrote:
>> Hi
>> I've installed the System two days ago. Everything went fine.
>> But ...
>> I'm at a loss to understand why there is no sound on it ...
>> My soundcard is a Creative Sound Blaster Awe64
>> aumix doesn't open (I initially thought I just had to configure iti)
>> Thanks in advance
>> Pierre
>>
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