rhythmbox & esound problem?

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 10:44:46 +0100, Jeroen Janssen <japj at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I installed from the installation CD of 2005/03/03.
> 
> When I try to play one the radio stations I get "Failed to write data to the
> esound daemon". After checkin, I found out it is apparently not installed.
> 
> Now when I try to install it via synaptic, it tells me it wants to remove
> polypaudio, polypaudio-alsa, polypaudio-x11 AND ubuntu-desktop.
> 
> Especially removing the last one (ubuntu-desktop) seems unwanted to me (so I
> didn't proceed).
> 
> Does this sound familiar to anyone here? (since I couldn't find any issues
> with esound in bugzilla)

Yes, sounds very familiar. I found these steps work: 

1) Set all apps to use EsounD output;
2) polypaudio -k
3) polypaudio -nF /etc/polypaudio/default.pa
4) Desktop>Preferences>Multimedia Systems Selector>Default Sink>ESD>Test
  should now work

Then to make it more permanent: Go into System/Preferences/Sound and
disable sound server startup. Log out and be sure to save settings.
Log back in and enable sound server startup again. Let me know if that
works.

-Eamonn