ESD Audio Killer

[dipankar das]

Hello Friends

The '/dev/dsp' remains captured by 'ESD', and hence playing any audio file 
with 'mplayer', brings forth the message '/dev/dsp' unavailable. This 
'mplayer' is compiled from 1.0pre7.tar.bz2, because, being connected on 
dial-up, it is hardly possible for me to depend on apt-get except the very 
essential ones or ones with a large number of cross-deps. What i do is the 
brute-force method, 'killall esd', or, even at times 'killall -9 esd'. Even 
after i made 'apt-get' on 'esd-devel'

And when recompiled 'mplayer' after getting esd-devel, it still needs the 
option '-ao esd' to play a file. 

The same with 'xmms'. To get the sweet songs become a killer first. In fact 
this is very much against the Ubuntu way of seeing things. Is there any less 
grotesque wayout?
-- 
dipankar das