EsounD trouble (second try)

(repost of my previous message -- accidentally used reply-to to an unrelated thread in the mailing list -- probably missed everyone who has a threaded mail reader.) Can I use EsounD without GNOME/Enlightenment? I installed the esound package but I can't get anything to play via esd. The only thin

EsounD trouble

Can I use EsounD without GNOME/Enlightenment? I installed the esound package but I can't get anything to play via esd. The only thing I can get out of the speaker is the esd startup tone sequence (when I run esd in the background). I tried esdplay, esdcat, esddsp, xmms (with esound plugin) but I c