On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 06:18:12PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Tuesday 19 December 2006 17:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've just found the reason (at least on my laptop): the problem is with > > esound package - > > > > rover:/home/rover# ps aux | grep esd > > rover 2655 0.0 0.4 2048 580 ? S 18:39 0:00 > > /usr/bin/esd -nobeeps > > > > prevents alsa from working. After alsaconf there is no esd running, but > > after reboot it appears again. > > How to disable esd on bootup - I could not deistall the esound package > > because it suggests to deinstall a gnome-desktop-environment package, and > > deinstall of esound-common suggests to deinstall a lot of other packages, > > that I would like to preserve as well... > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Vladimir. > > Esd should not be being started at bootup, as it's a Gnome thing, but will > probably be started when you login to Gnome. I can't login to Gnome on Etch > for some reason.
How strange. I can't log in to anything other than Gnome. icewm is installed,m is my default window manager, but I get Gnome. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
