On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Brad wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 12:32:36AM +0000, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >     Has anybody with GNOME and Enlightenment installed lose sound effects
> > from Enlightenment in the last week?  I haven't changed E, it just
> > stopped working.  I have been upgrading against debian.org regularly,
> > but I cn't remember specifically what changed in the last week.  Sound
> > effects from GNOME still work BTW.
> 
> i noticed that esound was no longer spawning the esd daemon if it wasn't
> running. i haven't tracked down why yet, but it seems that debconf is
> always telling the esound-common postinst that i answered 'no' to the
> "Do you have sound hardware?" question. This sets auto_spawn=0 in
> /etc/esound/esd.conf. Changing this to a 1 makes esd spawn again.
> 
> i don't know if this affects your problem (i use neither gnome nor E),
> but it's worth a shot.

I'm having the same problem eith Gnome and E after an upgrade, either on
the 28th or 29th. Sound worked fine until I restarted my session. now
gnome makes sound but E doesn't. And I do have 'auto_spawn=1' in my
esd.conf..

-- Ferret no baka

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