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> Do you use esd for your sound? Sometimes esd just disappears on my
> system, and I need to restart it to get sound again.
>
Not that I'm aware of. libesd0, esound, esound-clients, are installed, but I
don't think I'm using them. I don't use sounds in Gnome, and I don't see
anything related to esd with 'ps aux'. xmms is configured to use the OSS
driver as output plugin.
Victor