[SOLVED and work around] Re: esound and alsa not compatible?

["H. S." <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com>]

Apparently, _H. S._, on 24/10/04 20:03,typed:
> > If you use ALSA and esound then you should install libesd-alsa0 instead
> > of libesd0.
>
> I already have libesd-alsa0 installed and removed libesd0 (which was 
> 'rc' and not 'ii' in dpkg info):
>
> ~$ dpkg -l libesd*
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
> uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name                       Version                    Description
> +++-==========================-==========================-==================================================================== 
>
> ii  libesd-alsa0               0.2.35-2                   Enlightened 
> Sound Daemon (ALSA) - Shared libraries
> un  libesd-alsa0-dev           <none>                     (no 
> description available)
> un  libesd-dev                 <none>                     (no 
> description available)
> pn  libesd0                    <none>                     (no 
> description available)
> pn  libesd0-dev                <none>                     (no 
> description available)
>
>
> Still the behaviour is the same. The problem is that when the first user 
> to use esd logs out .esd in /tmp is not removed:
> ~$ ls /tmp/.esd/socket -l
> srwxrwxrwx  1 <user> <user> 0 2004-10-24 20:00 /tmp/.esd/socket
>
> is still there when the second user logs in to gdm.
>
> ->HS

I changed /etc/esound/esd.conf to enable auto-spawning and now all souns 
work (xmms works along with system sounds). My esd.conf is now:
# cat /etc/esound/esd.conf
[esd]
#auto_spawn=0
auto_spawn=1
#spawn_options=-terminate -nobeeps -as 5
spawn_options=-terminate -nobeeps -as 1
spawn_wait_ms=100
# default options are used in spawned and non-spawned mode
default_options=


Thanks for everyone's input.
->HS