Re: to add to everyone's sound woes

[Edward Dunagin <edunagin columbus rr com>]

On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Gleef wrote:

> Subject: Re: to add to everyone's sound woes

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> On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Neb Bosworth wrote:
> > 
> > That is not the problem.... the problem is that I get no sound or anything from
> > panel or other gnome apps except apps that don't use esd like xmcd and gqmpeg.
> 
> >From what you described, that IS the problem.
> 
> When you run "esd -as 2", esd starts, you hear the beeps, it says
> "initializing...", etc.  Then when you hit Ctrl-C, esd terminates, it no
> longer is running, so programs counting on esd (like panel), don't have
> sound output.  
> 
> If you run it as "esd -as 2 &" then you should still hear the beeps,

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when i run, i get:

[root@bbs local]# esd -as 2 &
[1] 18603
- autostandby timeout: 2 seconds
initializing...
Unable to bind port 5001
[1]+  Exit 1                  esd -as 2

whats up here?

thanks..................ed