"Louis F. Melahn" wrote: > > 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.
I manage to get same error message if I try to run 'esd' when esd is already running. Normally my system runs perfectly fine. So I perhaps it means that something (when error occurs?) is trying to run esd, though it is already running. -------------------------------------------------------------------- WYSINWYG - What You See Is Never What You Get Esko Lehtonen esko dot lehtonen (a) pp dot htv dot fi
