Re: to add to everyone's sound woes

[Gleef <dzol virtual-yellow com>]

On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Neb Bosworth wrote:
> 
> ok... here is the deal.... I have changed nothing on my machine as far as
> configuration is concerned and all of a sudden, esd works NO more. I get no
> sound in gnome when I run esd from the command line, All  I get is :
> 
> [root@localhost /root]$ esd -as 2
> - autostandby timeout: 2 seconds
> initializing...
> 
> I hear the beeps, then it sits at the "initializing..." line and does nothing
> and I then have to ctrl-c it and it kicks out the following, normal looking
> output:
> 
> received signal 2: terminating...
> bye bye
> [root@localhost /root]$
> 
> Like I say, it worked before and now, it just don't work.... all happened in the
> span of about 15 minutes, I guess. I wanted to get any input here to see if it
> is a bug before I waste developers time with a bug that is really operator
> error.

Try "esd -as 2 &"    :-)
              ^^^

Best of Luck,
-Gleef