On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 06:10:57PM -0400, dman wrote: | On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 02:22:10PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: ... | | After compiling and installing ALSA, apt-get installing esound, and adding | | myself to group "audio", GNOME was clipping right along. | | | | I think that GNOME should not depend on esound to run properly, especially | | given that many people have no sound output device. | | I run GNOME just fine at home (the Duron mentioned above) with no | sound card whatsoever. (PC speaker doesn't count, it only beeps) I | either disabled esd or ignore the warnings about not finding /dev/dsp. | I'll have to check after I get home.
Ok, I'm home now :-). After loggin in (via gdm), "ps -A | grep esd" show nothing. Looking in the gnome control panel under sound I see that the "Enable sound server startup" check box is not selected. As a result the "Sounds for events" is disabled. So as it turns out, I'm not running esound at all on this (woody) machine and have no problems at all. (Well, I can't play music, but that's what I get for not buying a sound card ;-)) -D
