Hello, I installed Helix Gnome on my Potato Debian system. Of course, a lot of the Gnome packages depend on EsounD, so the esound-common and esound packages were installed alongside the Gnome ones. Now, my sound hardware works fine: I have an Opt0924 chipset, and I use the mad16 driver. All the ordinary sound utilities work perfectly (i.e., playmidi, wavp, etc.). But I can't get the Enlightened Sound Daemon (esd) to work; whenever I invoke it (without options), I get the following message,
Unable to bind port 16001 and then it aborts. What does that mean, and how do I fix it? I am using the latest version (at the time of this writing) for both the esound and esound-common packages: 0.2.18-3, which comes from the Woody distribution. However, the version from Potato (0.2.17-7) exhibited exactly the same behavior. This error is preventing all of the programs that use esd from working properly. Thanks, L.M.
