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)