FC4: choppy sound - seems to be ESD? [Solution]

[Ken Nordquist]

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 22:33 -0300, Brian Mury wrote:
> I tried killing ESD and starting it with various different options. esd
> -b fixed the problem (it runs the server in 8 bit sound mode). Now I
> just need to figure out how to make this the default...

I experienced the same problems with esd.  After google'ing, I found
this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=144769

Which had this solution:

Edit /etc/esd.conf

add ' -r 48000' to the line that starts with 'spawn_options='

The spawn_options line in my esd.conf now reads:
spawn_options=-terminate -nobeeps -as 2 -r 48000 default

esd now works for me!

HTH,

Ken Nordquist
http://communitygems.com