man esd (Commandes) - The Enlightened Sound Daemon
NAME
esd - The Enlightened Sound Daemon
DESCRIPTION
Starts up EsounD, which provides a sound mixing server.
USAGE
esd [options]
-d DEVICE force esd to use sound device DEVICE -b run server in 8 bit sound mode -r RATE run server at sample rate of RATE -as SECS free audio device after SECS of inactivity -unix use unix domain sockets instead of tcp/ip -tcp use tcp/ip sockets instead of unix domain -public make tcp/ip access public (other than localhost) -terminate terminate esd daemone after last client exits -nobeeps do not play startup beeps -port PORT listen for connections at PORT (only for tcp/ip)
Possible devices are: /dev/dsp, /dev/dsp2, etc.
FILES
/etc/esound/esd.conf daemon configuration file
/etc/esound/esd.conf is a file of key=value pairs. There may also be a section delimiter to placate gnome_config. There are three options:
auto_spawn
0 or 1 indicating whether the esd library should automatically spawn a daemon if one is not running when a sound is played. This option is not recommended for Gnome users who have enabled sound for events in Gnome.
spawn_options
a string with the command line to be passed to esd when it is automatically spawned by the library
spawn_wait_ms
the number of miliseconds to wait for the daemon to successfully start. If the daemon is not started by the timeout, the application will act as if the audio open failed.