If I start esd, then play a sound with esdplay, the sound plays successfully. However, if esd is NOT running, the system hangs when I use esdplay, or the gaim or xmms esd output plugins. When the system hangs, no error messages are written to the logs. The only way to reboot the system is the hardware reset button; alt+sysreq key codes do nothing, and remote ssh login fails. Possibly helpful configuration info: esd version: 0.2.29 (latest available in portage) kernel version: 2.4.19-gentoo-r10 sound driver: via82cxxx_audio CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
cant you move out of X either (alt+f1), sounds like a hardware problem of some sort to me. It shouldn't make your system crash.
It might be hardware, but I doubt it since esd is the only thing that can cause the crash. Playing sound via xmms or aRts or even just cat > /dev/dsp works perfectly. My guess is that this is some sort of bug in libesd, or in the via-82cxxx_audio module (or both!).
Alright, you can mark this one invalid. I put in my old Soudblaster PCI, and now it doesn't crash, so it's probably not an ESD bug. It's either a bug in the driver or bad hardware. Either way, it's not a gnome problem.
ok, closing -> you can close the ones you opened yourself btw ;)
*** Bug 7737 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
