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Re: rh5.9



Oded Arbel writes:

 > > I filed a bug report a while ago and received a quite unclear response 
 > > claiming that mpg123 now works "via esd", which is some kind of sound
 > > server. Whatever...
 > 
 > esd is the sound daemon for the enlightenment window manager
 > (Enlightenment Sound Daemon), which is the default WM used by GNOME. it

Not to be nitpicking or anything, but esd has nothing to do with
Enlightenment, and it's actually Enlightened Sound Daemon. Check its
web page -- http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/EsounD.html. Enlightenment and 
GNOME just happened to be the first programs that started to use it on 
a wide scale.

 > try doing 'esd mpg123' or something.

If an application is designed to use esd, you just need to make sure
you have esd running and run the application. If you want to run an
application that is _not_ designed to work with esd, but route it
through esd anyway, and benefit from the main idea of esd which is
allowing several applications to play on the sound card at the same
time, you should run it with the "esddsp" wrapper, e.g. "esddsp play
linus.au". Note that this doesn't work with x11amp, but the CVS
version of x11amp already has a proper esd output plugin, so this
problem should be cured shortly. To shut esd off so you can use
x11amp, but still not get errors from programs trying to connect to it
(all GNOME programs), type "esdctl off". Note that this will silence
all the audio programs that use esd.


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