Re: esd locks the machine up solid...

[mandrake mandrake net]

On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 09:56:29PM -0700, David Puryear wrote:
> On 09-Mar-99 Peter Petrakis wrote:
> > I've had this problem myself on my Alpha. What I do is a cheap hack :).
> > Go to /usr/bin and rename esd to _esd. Next gnome-session starts it will
> > find that it can't start esound and then disable it. Works for me. BTW
> > you wouldn't be happening to be using soudn drivers from 4-front tech
> > would you?
> > 
> 
> I just renamed esd and restarted X. Now enlightenment gives me an error about
> can't find esd. I still like to disable/delete wherever enlightenment is getting
> info to run esd though. As for gnome-session, I'm not running that since I just
> like the panel and gmc.:) As for sound driver, I just compiled kernel with ESS
> 16** since they didn't have ESS 1938, but it seems to work although I had to add
> few lines to /etc/conf.modules.

you shouldn't have a problem anymore, E should auto-save the fact that sound
wasn't on last time and won't re-enable it until you specifically set it
in the control panel app.

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