Re: esd sound problems

[Tim Lewis <tlewis digaudio com>]

Michael,
Try logging in as root, and kill esd.  Now start esd with:

esd -as 2 -nobeeps

Then type:

esdctl unlock



See if this helps.  I am not sure if your problems occur as root and as
an ordinary user, but I found that this allowed an ordinary user to run
esd (since it is a daemon, it stays with the user that started it unless
you 'unlock' it).
Tim


"Michael L. Shire" wrote:
> 
> I'm hoping I'm only missing something simple and stupid on this:
> 
> I can't get the sound to work with GNOME 1.0 (under enlightenment
> DR15).  In particular, the sound effects don't work or play, the extace
> wavform display and the volume meter give errors that it cannot connect
> to the sound server.  E also cannot have sound enabled saying it cannot
> find EsounD.  I made sure ESD is loaded properly (at least it has a
> proper process id) and even killed it and restarted it with a different
> options, but no luck.  Gnome and E and the other apps still say they
> can't connect to the sound server.
> 
> My sound card is configured properly; I can record and play wave files
> at the very least.  Wavplay and Wavrec and even esdplay all play sound
> properly (when esd is not blocking the /dev/dsp).  I can play CD's and
> run the mixer to control the volume... but no extace or volume meter or
> action sound effects.
> 
> mike!
> 
> P.S. I'm using Redhat 5.2  I checked the archives and learned a thing or
> two but nothing that solves the problem.
> 
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