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. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de