esd is already running on my system without starting the daemon from the terminal. This is because I had previously checked "Enable sound server startup" in the Gnome Control Center.
Looking at the esd process, here is what it says: Process Info: Memory Usage Command: esd Total: 1.4 MB Status: Sleeping RSS: 516 KB Priority: Normal (Nice 0) Shared: 372 KB Is there anything that does not look right here, such as "Status: Sleeping". Barry On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 11:25, Etienne Tourigny wrote: > esd should be started when you login your gnome session. Make sure you > checked "Enable sound server startup" in the Gnome Control Center under > Multimedia->Sound->General. > > > If you're using KDE then there is some magic to do. Search the list. > > Etienne > > On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 10:52, Nicolas ROBAUX wrote: > > Barry (and others !) > > > > I just found the solution... > > > > You need to have the esd daemon running in the background. So I just > > typed "esd &" and "esdmon &" in a terminal, and then it worked ! > > Then, if you type "ps -aux" in the terminal, you will see esd in the > > list of the running programs. > > I have now to find wich command is the right one to launch the esd > > daemon (esd or esdmon ?), and I'll put it in my rc.local file, or in a > > startup script... > > Good to hear the sound ! :-) > > > > Let us know if it works for you ! > > -- Barry Skidmore | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Red Hat Linux 8.0 | those who understand binary, and those who don't. Postfix 1.1.11 | -- _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
