I have upgraded one of my machines from Valhala (7.3) to Psyche (8.0). I am fully up2date on this machine. Sound works fine using the via82cxxx_audio module. xmms plays audio fine using the OSS driver plugin. When I first logged into my machine after upgrade, I found that esd locks up X during post-login initialization. The mouse and keyboard do not respond. ctrl+alt+backspace and ctrl+alt+del do not work. I am forced to do a system reset via the reset switch. Running starx from command line in runlevel 3 behaves the same way. Through much trial and error, I determined that the problem was esd. In order to be able to login and disable the sound, I did the following before loging back into X: 1) Logged in as root at console. 2) Deleted the socket file in /tmp/.esd. 3) Took ownership of /tmp/.esd (as root) 4) Did a chmod ugo-w /tmp/.esd. This causes esd to fail because it can not create the socket file and login continues normally. I could then get back in to my account running X and turn the sound preferences off using the GUI config tools. Running sndconfig again does not seem to make a difference. sndconfig is successful in identifying and testing my sound card. It sets up the /etc/modules.conf exactly as it was before and the problem persists. What could possibly be causing this problem with esd? I'm at a loss since the sound module seem to be working fine via the oss drivers in xmms and in the sndconfig test. Is there anything I can do in the way of further testing or provide more info? -- Philip A. Chapman Application Development: Java, Visual Basic, VB for Applications, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL Linux, Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
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