EsounD: Sound device inadequate for Esound. Fatal.

[doh]

Just finished "updating" esound and when I try and start an app or esd I get:

[lx]

Does the device /dev/dsp or /dev/dsp2 exists?
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[doh]

Yes

[lx]

Do you have alsa in the USE variable in /etc/make.conf?
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[doh]

Now that I check, no alsa isn't there.
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[lx]

If you are using alsa, try to rebuild esound with the USE variable changed. But still it should work with oss. Well I can't think of anything else,

Cya lX.
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[doh]

I put Alsa in there and `emerge esound` again, but esd still gives the above errors.
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[schutten]

I had the same error (had just installed gnome (1.4) for the first time).
Had no clue were to start, but now it works again.

I did the following:
- switch to a new kernel (from 2.4.19-r1 to 2.4.19-gentoo-r7).
- emerged nvidia & alsa drivers again.

Then I noticed that the alsa driver states at the end that the alsasound script should be add to "boot" not to "default". This was the case for me!
So I changed it:
# rc-update del alsasound default
# rc-update add alsasound boot

Now after reboot esound magically works again!

I hope that this helps, since I have been playing around all day to get it to work again... I hope that this is the solution and not something else that I have done...

[doh]

ttt
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