removing esd - seems possible now?

[David Mohring]

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 13:39 +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote:
> Looks like infrastructure for removing esd is in place.
> The following prevent it:

The esound demon ESD, clunky as it, is still currently the best way to
serve sound to remote X11/LTSP terminals. I've been able to get KDE arts
sources plugged into ESD and working, but not the other way round. It's
also easy enough to plug ESD into the older NAS ( network audio
server ). 

There are many schools and other organizations still using older
hardware or thin Xterminals that support only NAS,ESD or ARTS. 

> 
> 1. dmix isn't enabled by default in FC4t2 (like esd, it enables multiple
> sound sources to output at the same time).
> This has been solved upstream in alsa 1.0.9rc2:
> https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=1068
> Could this be updated before FC4t3?
> 
> 2. gstreamer uses alsa by default, but doesn't work:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=155542

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=135990
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155575

You still need dmix to get gstreamer ALSA working with multiple sound
devices.

> 
> 3. GNOME sound preferences capplet doesn't allow events sounds without
> esd, I assume only because the UI design:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=155421
> The option to start ESD at GNOME startup should be removed.
> 
> Seems like there's no need now for another sound server like MAS, as
> alsa+dmix can do the job.
> References:
> http://wiki.arslinux.com/Dmix
> http://www.mediaapplicationserver.net/indexframes.html
> 
> What do you sing^H^H^H^ say? :-)

ALSA + Jack is still the best low latency sound system.
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/

Its already been suggested that the core ccrma sound packages be
rolled into Fedora Extras.
 

-- 
David Mohring <heretic at ihug.co.nz>