Hi I have been having problems with sound and recording etc.For example, on startup cd player works perfectly, but XMMS does not (on the ALSA plugin setting). If I change it to the OSS setting it does work.
Also I if want to play a DVD with totem player I get no sound, and I see no way of changing the settings in totem itself. Once, it did work, but i can't remember under which conditions.
You'd be wanting to use ALSA, not OSS. Run ALSAconf. I don't use esd, but I expect you have a configuration applet to tell it to use ALSA.
i have run alsaconf, but i don't know how to tell esd to use ALSA. any ideas?