On Wednesday 08 October 2008 15:12, Stephen Doonan wrote: > 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 To disable Pulseaudio, so that all your audio apps use Alsa directly, you can remove the package alsa-plugins-pulseaudio. This will also remove the package kde-settings-pulseaudio if you, as I am, are using KDE. If you have audio apps that use SDL, you can also add this line to ~/.bashrc, which will remove the hack that SDL programs needed, to use Pulseaudio. See below. unset SDL_AUDIODRIVER 2¢ worth of perhaps nothing. Nigel. btw Stephen. Any new tunes in progress? _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
