I've been running Woody with a Gnome desktop for a few weeks now and it seems to work fine.
Today I had a need to listen to an extended broadcast using realplayer 8 (I run Galeon and I have installed the appropriate realplayer plugins). The broadcast would work fine for maybe 5-10, sometimes 15, minutes at a time, but then it would hang. The realplayer app would also hang, as would Galeon itself. Exiting/killing Galeon and realplayer wouldn't help: when I tried to restart Galeon, Galeon would hang. What I had to do was kill esd, then I could restart Galeon and esd and realplayer and continue listening (although obviously I'd missed a few minutes). This, needless to say, was pretty annoying. Does anyone know of any gotchas with ESD in Woody that might cause this behavior? I see a new ESD in Sid; would it be worthwhile to upgrade to that version? BTW, I have a Dell Optiplex GX240 with an on-board soundcard using the I/O Controller Hub; I don't use Alsa I just use the kernel Intel ICH (i8xx) audio support option and it seems to work fine--at first blush it seems like an ESD problem not a sound driver problem, but I guess you never know... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HASMAT--HA Software Mthds & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
