On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 07:42:48 -0500 "Michael D. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is very strange. > > I just installed package esound (the Enlightened Sound Daemon) on my > powerpc Macintosh. Afterwards I found that I could not launch Mozilla > anymore. > > Figuring Mozilla was having some problem with esd, I tried killing the > esd process, and then Mozilla would launch. > > If I then started esd again, I am able to open new Mozilla windows. > So I guess I have a workaround, but it should not be this way. Can > you tell me what is wrong? I had a similar problem once with esd in RH9. The first app to play a sound would play about 1 second of it, then its GUI would lock up; subsequently, any apps attempting to play sounds (including the Gnome panel) would become similarly unresponsive. Each time, I killed esd and everything unfroze until the next time something tried to play a sound. Eventually I just shut all sounds off, because gnome was launching esd any time it wanted to play a sound even though I told it not to. The solution that worked for me may not be what you want to hear: replace your hardware. I was using the onboard AC97 on my new motherboard, and the AC97 drivers apparently just suck. When I installed a genuine SoundBlaster PCI128, esd automagically started working again. Krum -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
