[HLUG] starting esd

[Mark Broadbent]

Hi John,

On 02/02/06, j michaelson <jmichaelson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> hello,
>
> i've got my pc at work, it's sat in the corner without a monitor,
> keyboard or mouse attached to it. i've been sshing into it and
> downloaded software without any problems, but when i tried to play
> music i got this error message.....
>
> Error: Cannot open device esd.
>
> it seems that the sound demon doesn't activate until i log in and
> start a gnome session (which i can't do right now). does anyone know
> how i can get the sound demon to start automatically on boot?


What music software are you using? Can you persuade your music software to
use ALSA instead?

Thanks
Mark

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