ESD (enlightenment sound daemon, aka esound) + 2.6.1?

MADcow

yeah. ESD segfaults whenever i try to start it. i'm using ALSA now, although i used OSS in 2.4+esd, which was fine. OSS is now depreciated. ALSA is running fine (i can hear stuff in XMMS with the ALSA plugin), but ESD segfaults when i try to start it.
esd
Segmentation fault

yeah. please help?

ectospasm · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 3:07 am Post subject:

Have you tried rebuilding esound while booted into the 2.6.1 kernel? That might fix the problem...
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MADcow · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 7:40 pm Post subject:

yeah, i have.

MADcow · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 8:01 pm Post subject:

ahh. esd just doesn't play nicely with ALSA. you have to put -alsa and oss in your use flags, and add oss emulation to the kernel.
too bad.

ectospasm · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 10:52 pm Post subject:

MADcow · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 12:47 am Post subject:

but do you have -oss in your use flags? that's what kills it for me

ectospasm · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 1:42 am Post subject:

MADcow · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 9:27 pm Post subject:

but i did have OSS emulation in the kernel, and still do.
esd just hates me. anyway, it's alright i guess. although it would probably be better if it could communicate directly with ALSA and not have to go through the OSS emu...

papabean · Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 5:29 pm Post subject:

I had the exact same problem. It's because the version of ALSA I had compiled with my kernel was 1.0.1 and the API changed from the older versions of ALSA.

Thanks to this fantastic thread, I got dmix working with alsa, but esound (with or without dmix) was a no-go.

I discovered a patch from PLDLinux that patches esound to use the latest API, so I modified the current esound ebuild to patch the source and it works like a charm.

I don't know that this will work for everyone, but I've made the ebuild available: esound-0.2.32-r1.ebuild.tbz2

Unpack it into /usr/local/portage and re-emerge esound.

I doubt this will fix every case, but for those with 2.6.1 kernels that utilize the post-1.0 ALSA drivers, this should do the trick.
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jcc · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 5:08 am Post subject:

thanks :)

c0bblers · Guru Joined: 28 Mar 2003 Posts: 403

That new ebuild works great for me...esound's been annoying me of a while now but that's fixed it up fine. Might want to pass that on to a dev or something.

Cheers,
James

gleno · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 11:18 pm Post subject: