Gnome, esd and i810_audio-- they can work together

[James D Strandboge]

Currently, when configured to start the sound server, gnome-session
starts esd with only the "-nobeeps" option. I have submitted a patch
under http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=170843
that allows gnome-session to honor the ESD_SPAWN_OPTIONS variable.

This is a very useful patch for people (like me) who have to run esd
at a specific sample rate for esd to work at all. I have a laptop
that uses the i810_audio driver, which would eventually hang when I
enable sound under gnome. With the patch applied, I simply dropped:

ESD_SPAWN_OPTIONS="-terminate -as 5 -nobeeps -r 48000"

into /etc/environment, and I haven't had a gnome hang since. As the
patch hasn't been accepted yet, I thought I would let other gnome and
laptop users know about the patch.

James Strandboge

[Bas Zoetekouw]

Hi James!

Post by James D Strandboge
ESD_SPAWN_OPTIONS="-terminate -as 5 -nobeeps -r 48000"
into /etc/environment, and I haven't had a gnome hang since.

Uhm, why not just put the options in /etc/esound/esd.conf?

[Christian Marillat]

Post by Bas Zoetekouw
Hi James!
ESD_SPAWN_OPTIONS="-terminate -as 5 -nobeeps -r 48000"
into /etc/environment, and I haven't had a gnome hang since.
Uhm, why not just put the options in /etc/esound/esd.conf?

This doesn't work, esound is unable to load this file.

Christian

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,

Post by Christian Marillat
This doesn't work, esound is unable to load this file.

true, but why is it still in the package ?

ciao
oli

[James D Strandboge]

Post by Oliver Grawert
hi,

Post by Christian Marillat
This doesn't work, esound is unable to load this file.

true, but why is it still in the package ?

For when esd is set to autospawn.

Jamie

[James D Strandboge]

Post by Bas Zoetekouw
Hi James!

Post by James D Strandboge
ESD_SPAWN_OPTIONS="-terminate -as 5 -nobeeps -r 48000"
into /etc/environment, and I haven't had a gnome hang since.

Uhm, why not just put the options in /etc/esound/esd.conf?

Because esd doesn't read esd.conf when its not in autospawn mode.

Jamie