Le mercredi 20 décembre 2006 à 13:29 +0000, Sam Morris a écrit : > > In all cases, as esound is buggy and unmaintained in Debian, it is > > deactivated by default at least in all GNOME software. The default for > > gstreamer, vlc, xine and others is to use direct ALSA output, which, as > > you explained, has software mixing enabled by default. > > This doesn't seem to be the case. I noticed this problem because I have > had to help a couple of newbies on IRC get their sound working over the > last couple of days. In both cases the culprit was esd which was holding > open the sound device. Installing libesd-alsa0 and killing esd made > everything work again. > > Perhaps it was something they did to their systems themselves after > installing Etch?
ESD shouldn't be started unless you check the appropriate box in the GNOME sound preferences. -- Josselin Mouette /\./\ "Do you have any more insane proposals for me?"
