Re: esound server and port 35091

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows brown edu>]

On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 07:06:09PM -0500, Joel Brooks was heard to say:
> hi, i just recently joined the list, and i can't find anything else that
> applies...  i just downloaded all the gnome rpms and (i think) i followed
> the instructions properly, but when i startx to try gnome out, i just get a
> plain-old X session.  when i quit out of X, i see an error that reads:
> 
> Unable to connect to server port 35091
> This generally means that the program could not talk to the esound server
> 
> i don't have a sound card...  do i need one?
> 
> any suggestions, or a push to some documentation would be appreciated...
> 
> thx,
> 

  That's a diagnostic message that can safely be ignored..it's telling you
it can't find esd (the sound server) on your computer.  Since you don't have
a sound card, you don't need esd.  Gnome should run quite happily (if silently)
without it...

  Daniel

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