> However - Esound kills the whole machine. Locks up. I get the first few 
> bleeps and then everything is locked. Something awful is happening when 
> esd tries to startup.
> 
> It could be esound, but should it really lock the whole machine if it were?
> 
> I can "cat somefile > /dev/audio" and I hear the sound and nothing 
> complains.
> 
> What can I do to provide more info on this? Savecore is turned on but I 
> have no crashdumps.

Could you provide more concrete information to reproduce the
problem?  For example, "1. install pkgsrc/audio/esound
(esound-0.2.29) 2. % /usr/pkg/bin/esd -r blah,blah..."

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TAMURA Kent <kent2003@hauN.org> <kent@netbsd.org>