Comment 15 for bug 21915

(In reply to comment #13)
> First, a question: if you purge esound completely, and use gstreamer-properties
> to switch the gstreamer output to ALSA instead of esd, does it work as it
> should? This could help to determine whether the bug is in ALSA or in esd.

If I use gstreamer-properties and turn off esd, everything works, though I have
to admit that I'm not sure what this accomplishes---with esd removed, everything
works, regardless.

Or did you mean, kill rather than purge?

> Thanks for the indeed interesting strace. The ioctl(6, 0x400c4150, ...)
> sometimes produces an error, and finally hangs. However, there are no ioctl's in
> esound (nor the library) that could be responsible for this, so the ioctl must
> be from the ALSA library.

The backtrace I already replied with certainly makes it look like it's libalsa.