asound.conf w/ dummy driver

["Sean \\The RIMBoy\\" <sean@rimboy.com>]

I'm trying to use the dummy driver under alsa, to be able to use esd, so I
can pump multiple audio sources into esd and then pull them out for
streaming.  I've got alsa compiled and it would appear that the snd-dummy
module is loaded.  I recompiled esd (esound) but it's now segfaulting when
I try to start it up.  esd looks like it wants to read something out of
the /etc/asound.conf file.  There does not appear to be a well documented
dummy config for /etc/asound.conf.  Unfortunately the alsaconf program 
will not setup a dummy driver, there's no way to tell it to and no way to 
select it.

Anyone have any other thoughts or suggestions?  Esound will absolutely not 
run without something resembling a soundcard (there's some brilliance at 
work, especially since it's network centric).  Alsa is the only project 
that I've found that provides a dummy soundcard driver (Why there's not 
one in the kernel is a good question).  It would appear that it can work.  
Just getting it to work is the question.  

Any suggestions?

TIA,

Sean...

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