enlightenment sound daemon, esound, never works?

[lugoteehalt]

Using various debian distributions, when I try to enable sound in Enlightenment it always says it has had trouble communicating with the server (something like that) and won't work. (Except it did that one time and did work, but only with one theme.) Is there some way to get it working, perhaps I'm missing something obvious?

Thanks any help.

[Hayl]

is ESD even running? ps -A | grep esd will tell you. if not, then run it.

[lugoteehalt]

Thanks, I'll try it.

[lugoteehalt]

For the record:

That worked, but I don't feel as idiotic as I should: what sort of program is disabled by default?!

Incidentally: Tried 'auto_spawn=1' in /etc/....esd but things went wierd after it worked for a bit. Don't know why. Currently have 'esd &' in .xsession. And this is working for the present.

Thanks for the help Hayl.