Comment 17 for bug 14333

Daniel,

I'm sorry, but I don't understand your previous response. Do you mean that in a
_correctly_ working (bugfree) system, logging into gdm (and therefore starting
esd?) means that aplay _should_ always lock-up/hang? (Incidentally, I don't
think that aplay ever hanged/hung in warty.)

I guess what I'm trying to find out is whether I should be able to use aplay
(from the command line) while I'm logged in graphically. I've always used aplay
as a diagnostic tool in the past, because it's so low-level (and depends on very
little else). Unfortunately, I understand very little about the inner-workings
of alsa/linux media in general...

HTH, Jaime