You are _so_ close! That error means the individual applications are still trying to talk to a local device (local to the server). Things like mplayer need to be told to use ESD. Edit files in /etc/mplayre/mplayer.conf and /etc/mplayerplugin.conf and set the ao device to esd for both. (ao is "audio output"). Somewhere in gconf is a setting to make the default audio device esd. If that is done for a default user then copied to /etc/skel, all new users get it. Old users can get it updated with some script-fu magic (although gconf stuff is pretty ugly in places). On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 13:37 -0800, John Montoya wrote: > Barry- > > >>>> 1. System,>Preferences,>More Preferences,>Multimedia Systems > Selector,> Click on Output,> Click your drop down arrow and make sure > ESD-Enlightenment** > > *** Done, was not selected - but this didn't change anything. > > > >>>>> 2. in a terminal do ' yum install xmms ' - Once installed open > xmms - Click drop down arrow,>Options,>Preferences,> Select esd for > "Output plugin,>> > > ** I installed without incident - but I do not have "esd" plug in > option listed. - only ALSA, Disk Writer, and OSS Driver. So I can not > proceed with the xmms tests you suggested. > > >>>>> 3. http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/Sound#ESD_can_t_play_sound > > ** I did go to the link you suggested and made the changes to the > rc.sound file - and that worked ! So now I have system sounds (like > startup, and window clicks, etc). But I can not get any sounds from > the games / programs. I also can not get anything from web pages > either. > > When I try to start a program - for instance - blinKen - I get... a > message dialog box from artsmessage - > "Error while initializing the sound driver: device/dev/dsp can't be > opened (No such file or directory) > > So apparently I'm much closer now... but still something is amiss- > > thanks for your help so far, > > john- > > _______________________________________________ > K12OSN mailing list > K12OSN redhat com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn > For more info see <http://www.k12os.org> > -- James P. Kinney III CEO & Director of Engineering Local Net Solutions,LLC 770-493-8244 http://www.localnetsolutions.com GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics) <jkinney localnetsolutions com> Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7
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