Jennifer, sounds like the dir else doesn't exsist or has the wrong permissions have a look if its not there create it, then from the command line -> chmod 1777 /tmp/.esd , logged in as root
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jennifer Sent: 28 October 2001 16:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sound Config / ESD Errors hello, I have been unable to get my systems sounds working and am also unable to run sndconfig. Sndconfig reports that my sounds card is not supported at this time althought i do have the drivers installed. (Aureal Vortex 2) I aso get the following error about ESD. i'm not sure what ESD is or what the error message is really saying to me. I can play CDS, but I cannot hear system sounds. esd: Failed to fix mode of /tmp/.esd to 1777. Try -trust to force esd to start. esd: Esound sound daemon unable to create unix domain socket: /tmp/.esd/socket The socket is not accessible by esd. -- 11:16am up 12 days, 14:57, 2 users, load average: 0.11, 0.19, 0.20
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