On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:49:46 -0700 Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ->>In response to your message<<- > --received from Jacob S.-- > > > > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:58:50 -0700 > > Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hmmmm. Thanks for the suggestion. I did as you said and changed > > > my initial selection "esddsp" to "auto". Start esd, 'esd &'. > > > Start mozilla. Go to a flash site; Freezes. I then set it back > > > to esddsp just to test it again. Same thing. I also tried > > > "artdsp" and flash runs and without killing my browser but no > > > sound. Same thing with "none" as would be expected. So . . . not > > > sure what to say :) > > > > hmm... I would think it shouldn't work at all if this were the case, > > but - what happens if you do a "whereis esddsp"? Do you have the > > package esound-clients installed? > > What more specifically is the case in your "case" above :) Your case where killing esd makes it restart esd and flash works, otherwise you have no sound... if esddsp was not installed. I was also thinking there was an off chance that it was not really restarting esd, but was instead falling back to plain oss, but alas we weren't that fortunate. :-) > whereis esddsp gives > > ~$ whereis esddsp > esddsp: /usr/bin/esddsp /usr/share/man/man1/esddsp.1.gz > > Yes, esound-clients is installed. I don't know whether I should say good or too bad. > > > > For grins you might also try setting it back to artdsp and then go > > to the KDE Control Center and tell it to have artsd use esd for > > sound output. (Probably need to do this part as root.) > > Hmmm, I'm currently running gnome and don't have kde installed to > any degree at this point. Would possibly running kde over gnome > offer a solution? Ah, I wouldn't bother installing kde just to try that idea then. I doubt it would work, but was throwing ideas out in the odd chance that it would turn up the problem for us. Jacob -- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .signature #6: A Linux machine! because a 486 is a terrible thing to waste!
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