OT: xscreensaver question?

Jack Coates jack at monkeynoodle.org
Sun Mar 10 02:40:30 CET 2002


identical

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, H.R. ter Veer wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 07:13:33 -0800 (PST)
> Jack Coates <jack at monkeynoodle.org> wrote:
>
> check your ~/.xscreensaver file?
>
> > well, it is running on an XFce system...
> >
> > I have two "identical" Mandrake 8.0 systems on similar motherboards with
> > the same built-in AC97 sound; one has a Voodoo3 and the other has
> > built-in video. Both are kernel 2.4.8 and alsa-lib 0.5.
> >
> > Both systems have xscreensaver-4.00-2mdk and xscreensaver-gl-4.00-2mdk
> > installed, but on one of them (non-voodoo) it plays little voice clips
> > when it starts, stops, or gets a bad password. That's moderately
> > annoying; what's really annoying is that it seems to be loading some
> > other sound library, so there's a burst of static and popping before the
> > clip and then the last part of the clip gets cut off. mpg123 sounds just
> > fine on the same system.
> >
> > Any ideas? I'm still hunting through the RPM database looking for
> > differences. I've always associated this sort of behavior with esd, but
> > -- wait, it's running on the problem system and not on the good one.
> > Both have esound 0.2.22 installed.
> >
> > Where would this get launched from?
> >
> > --
> > Jack Coates
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