On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 19:47, Warren Togami wrote: > After I installed ALSA with the snd-via686 driver, ALSA sound output > works great, but it broke esd. When ALSA isn't outputting sound, esd > sound output is incredibly garbled. While I'm by no means an ALSA guru, I know there's an optional OSS emulation layer involved (which would be needed by esd). Perhaps it's not configured correctly for OSS emulation? ALSA has a database of what lines to put in modules.conf for each sound card. I'd check that out. -- Chris Kloiber