On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 01:17:42PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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. > Hi hendrik, what does this say: ls -l /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager this is a symbolic link to the current window manager on Debian systems. Gnome is not a window manager, metacity is, as well as icewm. The Gnome enviroment usually starts with gdm (gnome display manager) and than launches metacity (the window manager). cheers, kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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