Really?  Does ESD relinquish the sound device after a certain amount of idle 
time?

The last time I mixed Squeak and ESD, it didn't work too well (which 
admittedly was quite some time ago)...ESD just hogged the sound device and 
wouldn't let anything else use it.



> Kevin Fisher wrote:
> > Is sound enabled under Squeak?  Since you're running Gnome I suspect that
> > you've also got ESD running as well...this hogs the sound device and
> > as a result, Squeak will appear to 'hang' since it can't access the sound
> > device.
> 
> Actually, Squeak works (and sounds) very well with ESD on my Redhat 6.2
> + Helix Gnome.
> 
> -- Bert