for the past few months now, i've been trying to track down what is happening on my system. i have managed to get enlightenment compiled an installed (all went fine) however while attempting to turn the enlightenment sounds, i get an error about esd not being able to be contacted. i run the latest ALSA packages (from /patches/packages) in console i notice the "alsa_audio: no card found!" message. now, i'm not sure what that exactly means. i have gone thru anything i can found. maybe it's that i'm not looking well enough (then again, all i know is that this issue is related to Esound and ALSA somewhere... if anyone has accomplish to make the esd daemon work properly, please explain.

for the current time i won't post system specs, as i have attempted to make this work on multiple machines (2 of them currently - laptop, and workstation at the office).

any help will be appreciated, and info on hardware/config will be given if it needed.

NetrixTardis

quite self-explanatory i'd have thought... alsa has no cards cofigured for it's setup. find which alsa card module you need, for example snd_intel8x0 and configure alsa to load it when you start alsa as a whole

post output of these two commands
lspci
lsmod

lspci -v
-----------------------
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 0
3)
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. KT7/KT7-RAID/KT7A/KT7A-RAID Mainboard
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 8
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] (pr
og-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: e4000000-e5ffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e2000000-e3ffffff
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (re
v 40)
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp.: Unknown device 0000
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Mas ter IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 Bus Master ATA133/100/66/33 IDE
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
I/O ports at d000 [size=16]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 16) (prog-if 00 [UHC I])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
I/O ports at d400 [size=32]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 16) (prog-if 00 [UHC I])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
I/O ports at d800 [size=32]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI]
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
Subsystem: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
I/O ports at dc00 [size=256]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Macronix, Inc. [MXIC] MX987x5 (rev 25)
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
Memory at e7000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=256K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Mode l 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: AOPEN Inc.: Unknown device 000d
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at e2000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>
---------------------------
lsmod
--------------------
Module Size Used by Not tainted
snd-pcm-oss 37092 0
snd-mixer-oss 12016 1 [snd-pcm-oss]
parport_pc 14724 0
parport 23264 0 [parport_pc]
uhci 24528 0 (unused)
usbcore 58752 1 [uhci]
snd-cmipci 17972 1
gameport 1452 0 [snd-cmipci]
snd-pcm 56064 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-cmipci]
snd-page-alloc 6004 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-opl3-lib 5764 0 [snd-cmipci]
snd-hwdep 4864 0 [snd-opl3-lib]
snd-timer 13444 0 [snd-pcm snd-opl3-lib]
snd-mpu401-uart 3136 0 [snd-cmipci]
snd-rawmidi 12672 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 3920 0 [snd-opl3-lib snd-rawmidi]
snd 29956 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-cmipci snd-pcm snd-opl3-lib snd-hwdep snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore 3332 7 [snd]
tulip 41056 1
crc32 2880 0 [tulip]
ide-scsi 9424 0
agpgart 44100 0 (unused)

mmm... weird... any kernel messages that give away that your card was detected?
check with

sound works fine with ALSA. for the time, i have setup a KDE environment that i can work with(which isn't that hard), the only problem is Esound. when i try to use it, i get the error: "alsa_audio: no card found!"
i'm out of ideas. i'm searched through the net, went thru the slackbuilds of for esound, and for alsa.

I compiled the alsa drivers into the kernel. Upon using alsaconf, it says that no sound card was found.

I recompiled the kernel and changed the alsa drivers into modules. Upon using alsaconf, it worked.

Thus, alsaconf looks for modules (so make sure you made them modules, and didn't compile it into the kernel).

You might want to try setting every alsa driver to be a module. If alsa can support your card, it will find the module for it.

i didn't compile them in the kernel. i didn't try to re-compile anything, just looked at the slackbuilds to see if there was something that should have been there. this is a Esound issue. i'm convinced that the problem lies with esound. just don't think ALSA (nor the Gnome developers for that matter) care about esound anymore. its dead. just waiting for Enlightenment to stop using a sound server like Esound. arts seems to be going strong...