Esko Lehtonen wrote: > > "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.
I thought of that, but esd is definitely not running on my system when this error occurs. Thanks, L.M.
