[maemo-developers] libesd -- sound in Fremantle

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

(replying to this old mail)

ext Graham Cobb wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 September 2009 11:50:17 Graham Cobb wrote:
>> However, there is no libesd for Maemo 5.  "esound" is the debian package
>> which builds libesd.  Anyone feel like volunteering to build a libesd from
>> esound? If not, I will have a go later once I have got the rest of GPE
>> running on Fremantle.
> 
> OK.  I have sent a cut-down esound package to the autobuilder and libesd0 and 
> libesd0-dev are now in Fremantle extras-devel.  Of course, I have no way of 
> knowing whether it works without a device -- someone can try it when 
> gpe-calendar is available.

Pulseaudio should be used for sound output on Fremantle.

Note: using Alsa directly isn't good as it skips the speaker
protection algorithms in pulseaudio.


	- Eero