[nmglug] mplayer alsa

[BrianO'Keefe]

Sam Noble wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 19:11 -0700, BrianO'Keefe wrote:
>   
>>> Hmmm... no sound again and same terminal output! I didn't change
>>> anything-honest. I did put the videos that I was testing on a remote
>>> drive but that shouldn't make a difference.
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>> Sorry about this! I rebooted and sound is back. I guess it's just
>> flaky!
>>     
>
> If it stops working again, run:
>
> $pgrep -l esd
>
> And that will let you know if the sound daemon has gotten started up
> again somehow. This used to be a big annoyance, as there were some
> benefits to using a sound daemon like ESD or Arts but they also would
> get in the way of anything that didn't know how to use (and also caused
> a small performance degradation, that was problematic for folks doing
> fancy sound stuff.)
> Seems the last year or two I've not had to futz with it and the distros
> have taken care of me just fine, letting multiple sound streams play
> simultaneously and stuff like that. I haven't looked into if it's the
> "Y" systems yiff sound server that got installed at some point, or if
> it's PulseAudio that get's discussed online sometimes as "the future for
> linux sound" (or potentially they may be the same thing, as I said I
> haven't looked into it.) But whatever the situation, I _never_ need ESD
> anymore.
>
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Here's the output anyway. I turned off ESD in sound and have used the
'killall esd' yet there it was again! It comes back after suspending. I
don't think I need ESD for anything either.


brianokeefe at ubuntu:~$ pgrep -l esd
8594 esd
brianokeefe at ubuntu:~$ killall esd
brianokeefe at ubuntu:~$ pgrep -l esd
brianokeefe at ubuntu:~$