Re: esd == bad_sound

[Eric Wood <eric interplas com>]

I start esd and it sounds of a loud and endless screeching noises -
sounds horrible.  I have to kill the esd process to get it to quit
blasting my speakers.  My ESS sound card works with everything else
except esd.  Any ideas?  thanks,
-eric wood

mozart@windsor.igs.net wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately I've been having the same problems as he has with ESD. I didn't
> mention it on the mailing list because I assumed other people had the same
> problem, I mean, the sound quality is so ugly at moments i couldn't imagine
> other people weren't having the same problems, an in fact I've talked to a few
> other people that have the same problems.
> 
> Basically for me, ESd works great when cpu usage is at 0%, anything after that,
> it sucks, plain and simple, mp3's turn into lumpy and bumpy sound mungles,
> gnome sound events are delayed *SECONDS*.
> 
> I tried finding a solution to the problem as well, so i switched from my SB
> AWE32, to a sb 16 pnp, same thing. Owell, esd isn't that important to me, i can
> live without it.