What's starting esound?

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

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?