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>Chapter 3. Running EsounD</H1
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> The Enlightened Sound Daemon
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>-nobeeps</TD
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>inhibits the default startup tone sequence</TD
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>-d DEVICE</TD
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>use audio device DEVICE (esd -h for values)</TD
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>-b</TD
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>run server in 8 bit sound mode</TD
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>-r RATE</TD
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>run server at sample rate of RATE</TD
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>-as SECS</TD
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>free audio device after SECS of inactivity</TD
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>-vt</TD
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>enable trace diagnostic info (debug builds only)</TD
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>-vc</TD
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>enable comms diagnostic info (debug builds only)</TD
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>-vm</TD
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>enable mixer diagnostic info (debug builds only)</TD
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>-port port</TD
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>accept connections on given port (default=5001)</TD
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> In addition, "kill -HUP esd-pid resets ownership of the daemon.
The file, ˜/.esd-auth, is used for authentication, and is
created if needed.
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