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Sorry - meant to attach this also. Make sure you're building certain |
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things with the alsa USE flag and preferably with the esd flag turned |
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off. At least that's what I do: |
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[ebuild R ] media-sound/esound-0.2.36-r2 USE="alsa ipv6 tcpd -debug" 0 kB |
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[ebuild R ] gnome-base/control-center-2.16.2 USE="alsa -debug -eds" 0 kB |
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On 1/7/07, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 1/7/07, David Relson <relson@×××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > I've been using Linux for 6 or 8 years -- without speakers. Today I |
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> > decided to take a trip on the wild side and install speakers. It has |
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> > been interesting. |
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> > |
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> > I've been using /usr/bin/gnome-sound-properties (started from Gnome |
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> > start button via system//preferences/sound (from nu) to test my |
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> > configuration. From the Sounds tab, all the System Sounds work |
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> > perfectly. However the Devices tab works fine when ESD (Enlightenment |
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> > Sound Daemon) is selected and doesn't work at all when "ALSA" is |
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> > selected. In this case, "doesn't work" means the following dialog is |
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> > displayed: |
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> > |
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> > audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512! |
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> > audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink: |
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> > Could not open resource for writing. |
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> > |
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> > Any tips on what I should check? |
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> I've not done exactly what you are doing but make sure that Alsa is |
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> selected in the Sound prefernces. Also, if ESD has been running then |
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> it will likely block Alsa from getting to the sound cards. Make sure |
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> that the ESD daemon has been killed. |
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> > |
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> > Question 2: Is either ESD or ALSA to be preferred? Why? |
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> I would think Alsa since it's widely supported and they pretty quickly |
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> take care of things when you have problems or new hardware comes out. |
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> Since ESD is Gnome specific (I think) then if you switched |
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> environments - to say fluxbox or something lighter, or KDE on the |
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> heavy end) then you'd have more fooling around to do. |
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> I thought there was a way to tell ESD to use Alsa but I don't really |
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> know. I don't use any system sounds in Gnome myself. |
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> Hope this helps, |
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> Mark |
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> > Regards, |
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> > |
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> > David |
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> > -- |
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> > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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> > |
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