ESD driver?

[Raul Dias]

Kevin DeKorte <kdekorte at yahoo.com> wrote:
>All,
>
>Has there been any discussion of an ESD sound driver
>for Wine. The Alsa driver is great, but if I am
>playing MP3 files via ESD, wine crashes alot when I
>have the ALSA driver for wine loaded. The version of
>ESD that I am using has support for ALSA in it. So I
>have all my apps talk to ESD and that way I get mixed
>sound. Little behind at times, especially in xine, but
>at least I get all my desktop sounds and MP3 music.


Hi Kevin,

it is a ugly hack but it works.

You can call wine with esddsp, like:
$ esddsp wine /path/app

or you can modify/create some script like winelaunch to call
wine this way.

It might make the sound lagged in games, but it should work
fine for everything else.

[]'s
Raul Dias