esdcompat [options] esdcompat --help esdcompat --version

esdcompat is a compatibility script that takes the same arguments as the ESD sound daemon , but uses them to start a the PulseAudio sound server with the appropriate parameters. It is required to make PulseAudio a drop-in replacement for esd, i.e. it can be used to make start up PulseAudio instead of esd.

It is recommended to make esd a symbolic link to this script.

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