esd prevents sound working in some apps/games...

[Daniel T. Chen]

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Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> 1. Disable ESD or killing it.

This can be done from System> Preferences> Sound .

> 2. Configuring ESD to release the sound device after some period of idle time.

This has been done for both Breezy (5.10) and Dapper (6.06.1 LTS); cf.
/etc/esound/esd.conf .

> 3. Configure the game to use ESD.

If the game is SDL-based, one could (re)install libsdl1.2debian-esd. The
recommended route is to use libsdl1.2debian-alsa (which is installed)
instead.

> 4. Everybody using ALSA, which supports hardware/software sound mixing
> which allows several different applications to output sound at the
> same time.

Mostly. OSS-only applications (notably Adobe Flash) will need
hackarounds like esd or aoss.

Thanks,
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Daniel T. Chen            crimsun at ubuntu.com
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