On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 13:43, Florin Andrei wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 10:29, Alejandro González Hernández - Imoq wrote: > > > > At home I do have esd running, but here at work, by default esd doesn't > > run on every reboot. What is the correct way to enable it? > > I put an ugly hack at /etc/rc.d/rc.local where I just call /usr/bin/esd > > & but I really would like to do it "the Red Hat way" :). > > It should be started automatically. If it doesn't (or not reliably at > least), you must figure out why. ... and that's why I asked to the list, in the first place ;). Anybody else know about this? > OTOH, ask yourself if you really need it. You DO NOT need esd to do the > following things: > [...] > All these things use OSS and/or ALSA directly. The former is simpler, > the latter has better performance and allows for more complex tasks to > be performed. > Myself, i disable esd on my workstations. Never felt the need to run it. You say you disable it. How do you do it? Maybe the contrary process of what you do would enable it. Also, what is the best way to enable OSS and/or ALSA? I already have some ALSA-related stuff installed in my system (thanks to Matthias Sou's RPMs) but I haven't figured out how to enable it yet. > There aren't many apps that can only play sound via esd. I believe the > environment sounds in Gnome rely on it (correct me if i'm wrong). > > esd sorely needs a major overhaul (or replacement :-D). I am willing to replace it anytime :). I just wanted it enabled because I got a gaim's plugin, "festival" that allowed me to convert text to speech and it is very cool, but if I chose the "play" method, it won't work if I am listening to music using XMMS, that's why I ran esd, configured XMMS to output to esd and also configured gaim to do it, and now it is working. Thanks again for the input. Alex. -- ¡Sé libre, usa software libre! Be free, use free software! http://www.imoqland.com/
