> > This sort of stuff is why we don't want to put virtual sound devices in the
> > kernel itself. ESD is actually not good at handling multiple hardware sound
> > devices but thats an esd issue
>
> Also there's the little problem where ppp over the standard serial device
> experiences massive packet loss with esd running.
No!
Older version of ESD always kept playing silence to your soundcard even
when there was no output. Newer versions do not do this (then can even
close the device after a timeout).
This constant silent music creates a lot of interupts which was causing
your (probably unbuffered) serial port to lose characters. It also could
be possible that your sound driver spends a lot of time with interupts
disabled.
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