[linux-audio-user] should esd be running?

Rick B zajelo3 at cfl.rr.com
Thu May 6 16:22:57 EDT 2004


Hi all,
    I've been playing the new game ut2004 on my Fedora ccrma box. This 
game uses OpenAL for 3d sound which uses ALSA to route the audio through 
my on-board Nforce2 sound module. It sounds very good, however sometimes 
(not everytime) when I stop the game and check "ps aux" I notice esd is 
running and I know it usually doesn't run so it must be starting for the 
game. Should this be running at all since I'm using ALSA and OpenAL? If 
not, should I just remove it? I'm not really clear about what function 
esd actually serves.

                TIA
                   Rick B




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