What works:
* Playing audio through the local Unix domain socket.
esd &
esdplay foo.wav
What doesn't work:
* Playing over the network.
esd -tcp &
esdplay -s localhost foo.wav
This terminates immediately without sound. I've tried a number
of variations: using ESPEAKER instead of -s, using the numeric
address 127.0.0.1, specifying port 16001, adding -promiscuous
when starting esd, removing ~/.esd_auth. None of this has any
effect. ktracing esdplay shows that it reads ~/.esd_auth, writes
the contents to a network socket, and exits.
* I can't get a startup beep.
esd -beeps
Doesn't beep. I know -nobeeps is very popular, but when testing
it's nice to have confirmation that audio is actually routed to
your speakers/headphones.
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]
