Most probably you have esd running and your particular software isnt
configured to talk to esound. There are two things to do. Firstly check
your software preferences to see whether it can output to esound. If
possible then this is your best option.
If it can't then kill the process "esd" and run whatever you feel like.
Ofcourse it will most probably break a few gnome based audio software...
Mithun
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