sound problems in FC2

[Richard E Miles]

I'm having a devil of a time getting the system to load in X windows 
from a user account. It appears to be associated with the Esound system. 
After typing startx the system stops at the gnome startup window. When I 
do a ctl-alt-f1 to get to console mode I see a series of Messages saying 
"audio_alsa: no cards found". This is followed by the message "Esound 
failed to start". This is apparently enough to cause gnome not to start. 
I know sound is detected because I see startup sound messages when I 
start the system. (sound card snd_ens1371). I also can play a .wav file 
using the play command and the sound is heard. I checked 
/var/log/messages for any error messages related to sound and there was 
none. In frustration I logged out and then logged in as root. I typed 
startx and low and behold gnome starts and I can hear system event 
sounds and use xmms to play .wav files. Why am I getting these messages 
as a user (rmiles)? I know it has to to with esd because if I type esd 
at the console I get the "audio_alsa: no cards found message. If I sudo 
esd it starts and no error message occurs. I hate to have to use root to 
use X windows. Can anybody help me resolve these problems?
Thanks

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Richard Miles
Federal Way, WA
registered linux user 46097