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Bug 133292 - No sound without local esd
No sound without local esd
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Sound
2.5.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
: 160335 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-02-03 10:43 UTC by Filip Zyzniewski
Modified: 2009-02-02 10:11 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Filip Zyzniewski 2004-02-03 10:43:47 UTC 
gnome-sound-properties proggie doesn't allow to enable sounds without
esound daemon. Why would that be wrong? Two reasons:

1. Modern soundcards do hardware mixing, esd is no more needed, and libesd
can fallback to direct usage of /dev/sound/dsp if esd is not accessible.
Why disabling one to use it this way?

2. If doing a remote session, with DISPLAY=some.box:0 and ESPEAKER=some.box
esd locally is not needed, and what's more it usually can't run locally
because there is no /dev/sound/dsp. There's already one running on some.box
(usually an xterminal). EsounD is about network transparency too, isn't it :)?
Comment 1 Simon Porter 2004-02-05 16:01:10 UTC 
Changing to feature request and changing version to Gnome 2.5. Added
bugsquad keyword
Comment 2 Gabor Kelemen 2007-01-07 22:54:33 UTC 
*** Bug 160335 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2009-01-30 12:10:48 UTC 
libcanberra has GStreamer and ALSA sound outputs, so doesn't require esd running for this to work.
Comment 4 Jo Wyta 2009-01-30 14:54:57 UTC 
How is this resolved?  With Gnome  2.22.3 from Debian I go to Preferences > Sound and to the sounds tab and everything is greyed out unless I enable ESD.
Comment 5 Bastien Nocera 2009-02-02 10:11:25 UTC 
It's resolved in GNOME 2.24 and later. Get a recent version of GNOME...