[xvoice] esd support

[Brian C. <bc...@th...>]

I just checked esd support into CVS. Any gnome users that like to keep esd
running may want to give it a test run.


For those unfamiliar with it, esd (also "esound") is the Enlightenment
Sound Daemon, which was adopted by Gnome. It lets different audio aware
applications access a sound card without contention. So if you're listening
to mp3's and your window manager decides to make a noise when you close a
window, it won't choke when it finds the sound card already in use. Esd will
mix the signals and play them.

Previously Gnome users had to disable this to use xvoice, since ViaVoice
provided no support for esd. (And the ViaVoice OSS library is buggy, so we
get no proper notification when esd has the sound card locked).

Give it a whirl and let me know how it breaks. There might still be contention
issues if you're trying to play audio while using xvoice. Not all sound cards
can simultaneously record and play, and I'm not sure the OSS drivers even
support it (though ALSA does).

To turn on the esd support use the --with-esd configure option when building,
and start xvoice with "xvoice -e".

b.c.

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