10-31-2001
sound issues and hangging up
I am fairly new to unix, I have recently installed 7.2 red hat as a work station. In my hard ware browe i think it is. I can see my sound card listed there but it does not work. I have tried sndcnfig and the shell can not find it. I am lost here. my sound card is sound blaster live value.
Also this could be related but my tower start to make a high pitched squel and then after a bit my systems freezes.
if anyone has any suggestions that would be great thanks
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ESD(1) Enlightened Sound Daemon ESD(1)
NAME
esd - The Enlightened Sound Daemon
DESCRIPTION
Starts up EsounD, which provides a sound mixing server.
USAGE
esd [options]
-d DEVICE force esd to use sound device DEVICE
-b run server in 8 bit sound mode
-r RATE run server at sample rate of RATE
-as SECS free audio device after SECS of inactivity
-unix use unix domain sockets instead of tcp/ip
-tcp use tcp/ip sockets instead of unix domain
-public make tcp/ip access public (other than localhost)
-promiscuous start unlocked and owned (disable authentication)
-terminate terminate esd daemone after last client exits
-nobeeps do not play startup beeps
-port PORT listen for connections at PORT (only for tcp/ip)
Possible devices are: /dev/dsp, /dev/dsp2, etc.
FILES
/etc/esound/esd.conf daemon configuration file
SEE ALSO
esdcat(1), esddsp(1), esdloop(1), esdplay(1), esdsample(1), esd-config(1), esdctl(1), esdfilt(1), esdmon(1), esdrec(1)
3rd Berkeley Distribution EsounD 0.2.28 ESD(1)