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robotech_master) wrote2002-10-05 11:15 pm
robotech_master) wrote2002-10-05 11:15 pm
How my day went
Well, the job-training thing went well enough. Essentially, we went over the handbook—which was partly common sense, partly specific procedures for how to do things. Kind of neat, but a little scary, too...if I have an accident and it's my fault, I could be liable for up to $500 of damage. Gotta keep reminding myself to be very careful.
After that, came home, had a nap, then took my computer down to the local linux user-group meeting, in the hope that they could do something about the sound problem. However, the way things went, they got started talking, and only got around to looking at it 10 minutes before the end of the meeting. Which, of course, was too late to do anything about it. The fellow who looked at it suggested trying to back off to an earlier version of esd—but the earliest version available was the one I'd been using when I had the problem to begin with. And so far, the only response I've been able to get to my help request in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
linux is a fellow who seems to think maybe I have my balance control set wrong. I wish!
So anyway, now I'm extremely frustrated, because I've exhausted all the avenues of help I can think of, and I'm still without my sound working right. This really hits me hard, because I'm an audio-oriented sort of person...listening to music is how I relax, how I set my mood. I've tried everything I can think of to fix it, and nothing's working; the hell of it is, I wasn't even doing anything wrong when the sound broke. I just did the periodic software upgrade that I always do...but about one time out of ten when I do that, something breaks.
I really didn't need this added stress right when I'm starting a new job.
Update: And darned if it didn't turn out the fellow was right about the balance. Apparently it wasn't a problem with esd, but with the particular mixing app I was using.
Weird.
After that, came home, had a nap, then took my computer down to the local linux user-group meeting, in the hope that they could do something about the sound problem. However, the way things went, they got started talking, and only got around to looking at it 10 minutes before the end of the meeting. Which, of course, was too late to do anything about it. The fellow who looked at it suggested trying to back off to an earlier version of esd—but the earliest version available was the one I'd been using when I had the problem to begin with. And so far, the only response I've been able to get to my help request in
linux is a fellow who seems to think maybe I have my balance control set wrong. I wish!So anyway, now I'm extremely frustrated, because I've exhausted all the avenues of help I can think of, and I'm still without my sound working right. This really hits me hard, because I'm an audio-oriented sort of person...listening to music is how I relax, how I set my mood. I've tried everything I can think of to fix it, and nothing's working; the hell of it is, I wasn't even doing anything wrong when the sound broke. I just did the periodic software upgrade that I always do...but about one time out of ten when I do that, something breaks.
I really didn't need this added stress right when I'm starting a new job.
Update: And darned if it didn't turn out the fellow was right about the balance. Apparently it wasn't a problem with esd, but with the particular mixing app I was using.
Weird.
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ESD blows. It completely foobars the higher-end sound. Might I suggest you try artsd? You can run 'artsdsp esd' (after killing all the esd's that are running) and it will pickup esd requests and send it through artsd. artsd is in debian package libarts. I really think you will find it quite nice.
--aaron