Re: esd sound problems

["Michael L. Shire" <shire ICSI Berkeley EDU>]

Thanks for the reply and keep the suggestions coming! :-)

I tried various incantations of the esd options but still no luck.  
Gnome/E still can't connect to the sound server.  grrrr.. 
(But there are still a few new iteration ideas that it's given me.)

BTW, for all of this configuration stuff on my home machine, I stay
logged in and run everything as root and don't switch to a normal user,
so that's not an issue.

Thanks again,

mike!

Tim Lewis wrote:
> 
> 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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