Bug#312299: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#312299: ESD only?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:02:25AM +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 12:41:31AM -0400, EspeonEefi wrote:
> > I have run into the same problem (I'm on a ThinkPad T42). An interesting
> > thing I noticed was that sound was only disturbed when sound was being
> > output by ESD (GNOME system events, Gaim events with ESD selected for
> > sound method, Rhythmbox with esdsink for GStreamer sink). When sound was
> > being output straight to ALSA (Gaim events with Automatic selected and
> > ESD put in standby mode, Rhythmbox with alsasink for GStreamer sink),
> > everything played perfectly.
> 
> Interesting. I recall the Ubuntu guys fixing something like this
> recently. I wonder if you can fetch esound, esound-common and
> libesd-alsa0 from ubuntu
> (http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy/sound/esound) and try.

Something similar has surfaced for me in Breezy recently; I assumed it had
to do with the dmix experiment.  We also switched from libesd0 to
libesd-alsa0 recently.  esd first tries to open the device at 44.1kHz;
normally that fails on my system, and so it continues on to try 48kHz, which
succeeds.  Now, it seems that 44.1kHz succeeds, but the audio stream is
actually played at 48kHz by the hardware, or something along those lines.

Are we talking about the same problem?

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 - mdz