What's starting esound?
Kyrre Ness Sjobak
kyrre at solution-forge.net
Tue Jan 25 22:00:18 UTC 2005
man, 24.01.2005 kl. 23.00 skrev John Ellson:
> Jeffrey W. Stein wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 02:13 +0000, Dwaine Garden wrote:
> >
> >
> >>John Ellson wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>sean darcy wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>top shows 2 instances /usr/bin/esd taking 40% each of cpu.
> >>>>
> >>>>/usr/bin/esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 2 -spawnfd 17
> >>>>
> >>>>I think this is related to my problem where gnome won't start and
> >>>>arts dies.
> >>>>
> >>>>What's starting esd? And why doesn't the daemon just go into background?
> >>>>
> >>>>sean
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>I don't know what starts it, but I was seeing the same problem. My
> >>>solution was to "mv /usr/bin/esd /usr/bin/esd.broken"
> >>>
> >>>It seems to be impossible to just remove esound because everything,
> >>>including that kitchen sink - nautilus, depends on it.
> >>>
> >>>John
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>I'm seeing the same thing. When I kill esd, and then later on launch
> >>something. It will restart esd again. Have to go back and kill it again.
> >>
> >>Dwaine.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >Could it be related to shockwave?
> >
> >I see a lot of swf (shock wave flash?) processes sitting around after I
> >have been browsing with firefox. I usually also see an esd process
> >hanging around at the same time.
> >
> >They seem to be grabbing my sound, keeping MythTV from being able to
> >provide audio when I try to watch TV using my PVR-250 TV card.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Jeff
> >
> >
> >
> Its not shockwave here because I refuse to install it.
>
> John
Isn't it *shockwave* that doesn't exist for Linux - while flash does?
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