GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 144161
totem defaults to using artsd even when esound is already running
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Steps to reproduce: 1. Find a computer that cannot do hardware mixing 2. Run a program that set to use esound (e.g. rhythmbox with gstreamer set to esound) 3. do a ps auxw | grep esd and check that esd is running 3. Run a xine based totem Expected results: totem to use esound Actual results: totem tries to start artsd (which crashes but that's bug 138830) Additional information This bug was spun off from bug 142822
If you remove the arts plugin, does Totem correctly use esound?
Yes - but surely I shouldn't need to? If I have arts running already then it should use that, if I have esound running already then it should use that and if neither are running then it should choose...
Well, it will autodetect, the only problem that I can see is that it will crash because arts is buggy. So you just need to remove arts, and you'll be done with it.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138830 ***
Wait a second! It autodetects wrongly - why does it start artsd when there's a perfectly good esound already? Are you saying that it is crashing in the autodetection? If so can't you auto detect esound first?