Juhana Sadeharju wrote: > What is ESD in Preferences/Sound? A few non-expert, ordinary-user comments-- ESD is the "Enlightened Sound Daemon," I'm guessing Gnome's equivalent of KDE's aRts sound server. I personally don't like these desktop-environment sound servers so I turn them off using the preferences and system control-panel tools of Gnome or KDE and rely on ALSA and JACK instead. But regarding ESD, when PulseAudio is installed it installs an "ESD replacement" script that activates PulseAudio instead of ESD when ESD would normally be activated. So the "Enable software sound mixing (ESD)" checkbox in Sound Preferences in Gnome really probably turns PulseAudio on instead of ESD. So now for me there are 3 things to turn off regarding sound: aRts, ESD and PulseAudio. PulseAudio tries I guess to be a comprehensive solution to audio that would replace aRts and ESD at some point. But to me, at this point in time, it seems to create more problems than solutions. -Steve _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
