Problem With ESD on Ubuntu
 

Hello,

I've been using ubuntu for a while now and have fixed every discrepancy besides one: my sound. I can play music, talk on skype, watch google video, but I can only get the sound from one at a time. I checked sound settings and it says ESD is turned on. Skype says that the device its using for sound is /dev/dsp, and I have no other options. The only way i can get sound working off multiple things is: if I use any combination of VLC, rythmbox, or XMMS. But add skype or flash or java into the equation, and only one will work.

In order to make sound work at all with flash, my friend mad this script (it might be causing trouble with flash):

# Fixes

# Fix sound in Flash
if ! test -d /tmp/.esd
then
mkdir /tmp/.esd

if ! test -f /tmp/.esd/socket
then
touch /tmp/.esd/socket
fi
fi

Thanks for listening,
Mt Wallet

I got Skype to work, the newest version (It didn't auto update) now supports ALSA devices and ESD. The only thing left to fix now is Flash and Java.