On Saturday 14 April 2007 00:42, Nathan Aubrey wrote: > look if esd is running. It is running > You can try running 'esddsp grdesktop' which will > pipe grdesktop through esd, or just 'killall -9 esd' and then run > grdesktop. I tried the 'killall -9 esd', and then restarted grdesktop. Still had the same problem. I also don't have esddsp installed on my system. > As great as alsa is, our current desktops still run stupid > programs, esd and arts, to control sound instead of accessing arts > directly. that will be fixed soon in KDE 4, in Gnome... uh... I am not following you. Do you mean that if I run alsa I don't need esd or arts? Should I remove them from my system? Could something else be using /dev/dsp as well? I also have a /dev/dsp1. Thanks! -- Mark Phillips --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss