Re: esd locks the machine up solid...

["Jesse D . Sightler" <jsight pair com>]

On Mon, 08 Mar 1999 22:59:08 David Puryear wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Last week, I think it was Thursday, I did complete cvs rebuild. Since then I
> haven't tried new compile of Enlightenment until few days a go when I had to
> reboot. Now when I start Enlightenment, it will automatically start esd, which I
> don't want to run since it, not just cvs version either, locks up my machine
> solid when gnome is also running. Only thing I can do is use the power button.:(
> So, I was wondering which file esd is starting from.
> 
> I would give more details/a bug report on esd with gnome locking up my machine,
> but I never see any kind of errors, just hard locks up. I don't mind running
> machine without esd since other sound programs that don't depend on esd work
> fine for me. As for my setup, it is mostly Debian 2.1 with Gnome and
> Enlightenment from cvs, ESS 19** sound card on Celeron 333.

What kernel version are you using?  I have had very similar experiences to these with
kernel 2.0.36 on an ESS1869 sound card due to bugs in the kernel sound drivers.  Kernel
2.2, OTOH, works beautifully for me.  :)

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