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/esoundd/esd.conf daemon configuration file
SEE ALSO
esdcat(1), esddsp(1), esdloop(1), esdplay(1), esdsample(1), esd-config(1), esdctl(1), esdfilt(1), esdmon(1), esdrec(1)