[wplug] esd on gnome

Eric C. Cooper ecc at cmu.edu
Mon Feb 28 12:06:38 EST 2005


On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 11:25:28AM -0500, John Harrold wrote:
> I have a friend who's using gnome on a Debian/Sarge system and whenever he
> logs in the soundcard puts out this repeating hissing sound. Now he can
> kill esd and it goes away. So I was wondering how to prevent esd from
> starting in the first place. I'm not sure what is spawing the daemon
> thought. Can anyone offer a suggestion?

Under Applications > Desktop Preferences > Sound, there's an option to
enable the sound server at startup.  Uncheck it.

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Eric C. Cooper          e c c @ c m u . e d u


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