Re: x11amp and esd

[Rebecca Ore <rebecca ore op net>]

On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 05:19:00PM +0000, Tom Gilbert wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Rasaki Bidemi Bolanle Temidire wrote:
> 
> ->Hi Everyone,
> ->
> ->Sorry if I am asking a question that has already been dealt with.
> ->
> ->I just want to know how to make x11amp work with esd.  I have Red Hat 6.0 setup
> ->with the lastest gnome-libs (1.0.10) and gnome-core (1.0.6).  But everytime
> ->that I start x11amp up, it complains that it can't open the audio files.  As
> ->soon as I kill esd, it seems to work.  Am I doing something wrong?  I want to
> ->have the nice sounds that come with gnome but also be able to run x11amp. 
> ->Does anyone have any suggestions?
> ->
> ->Bidemi
> 
> Two options here.
> 
> Easiest: Try running "esddsp x11amp"
> This tries to force a non-esd-aware app to use esd. (Doesn't allways work
> however).

This worked with an earlier version x11amp.

> 
> Best: Upgrade. Download xmms (the new name for x11amp) version 0.9 final.
> I don't know about x11amp, but from xmms onwards, it has an
> esd-output-plugin, which works very well. (Also many more new features).
>

I found xmms gave me reverbs -- and so tried xllamp-0.9-beta1.1 which
also has a plug-in for esd -- and which is working happily right now.


-- 
Rebecca Ore