2009/8/28 Susan Cragin susancragin@earthlink.net:
Why do you need to install esound?
I don't know. I've taken it for granted that some kind of mixer is needed. Perhaps because I don't use the default sound card, the on-board card. Maybe I don't need esound at all. Or maybe if I could permanently make my Creative X-fi card the default. Right now, to do that, I have to revert back to the alsa-utils from Jaunty and use asoundconf set-default-card. (The newest alsa-utils does not include this handy tool.)
ALSA has shipped with "dmix" by default since shortly after 1.0 was released, though I think Ubuntu's pulse config can screw with it even after pulseaudio is removed.
Painful bug in Ubuntu. Yet another reason why I stay away from it at all costs :)
What do you use?
Debian (unstable). I also build the Debian packages for winehq :)