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PostPosted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 2:38 pm    Post subject: Pulseaudio - esound support is disabled Reply with quote

Hello, I was trying to get heroes3 to work and it requires esound.

From the wiki, https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PulseAudio#Configuring_other_applications I saw that I needed to have module-protocol-esound-unix however that module is not installed.

In the pulseaudio-5.99.3-r1.ebuild I noticed that esound is disabled:
Code:

myconf+=( --localstatedir="${EPREFIX}"/var
        --with-udev-rules-dir="${EPREFIX}/$(get_udevdir)"/rules.d
        --disable-coreaudio-output
        --disable-esound
        --disable-solaris
        --disable-waveout
        --enable-largefile
        $(use_enable X x11)
        $(use_enable adrian-aec)


I searched the bugzilla and the forums but couldn't find a reason for this. I changed it to 'enable', added the /tmp/.esd link to /tmp/.esd-1000 and now it works!

I didn't submit a bug because this seems like a deliberate action to keep it disabled.
If anybody could share some more light on why it is disabled, that would be much appreciated. Otherwise, maybe add a useflag so users can enable it?
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 3:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I thought esound is obsolete and unsupported? The official EsounD Web site doesn't seem to show any activity since 2000.

Wikipedia article on EsounD wrote:
ESD was maintained as part of the GNOME project, but as of April 2009, all ESD modules in GNOME have been ported to libcanberra for event sounds or GStreamer/PulseAudio for everything else.

On 5 April 2009 Lennart Poettering wrote:

GNOME now esound-free

Andre Klapper just informed me that GNOME is now officially esound-free: all modules have been ported over to libcanberra for event sounds or GStreamer/PulseAudio for everything else. It's time to celebrate!

It's an end of an era. The oldest version of esound in GNOME CVS is 0.2.1, commited on May 11th 1998. It has been shipped with every GNOME release since 1.0 back in 1999. (esound outside of GNOME dates even further back, probably some time in the year 1997 or so). After almost 11 years in GNOME it's all over now. Oh, those were the good times.

If you maintain a module that is not part of GNOME that still uses esound, hurry and update yours as well!

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