Gnome sound events

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Sat Oct 18 10:28:56 EDT 2003


You probably have an onboard sound card. ESD is the enlightenment sound
daemon that handles the sound server tasks and sound events. I have
always had trouble with it, especially for systems with multiple users,
UNTIL I install ALSA. Do a little test for yourself, log into Gnome as a
user, with the sound server and events going, log back out. At the login
screen, hit ctrl/alt/F1 and then log in as root, run "ps -ef" and see if
the user that previously logged into Gnome still has processes running,
especially the esd processes. They most likely are not shutting off and
there is the real problem. Try installing ALSA for your sound, it has
worked beautifully every time for me.
btw, KDE uses the ARTS sound server, that has it's own querks to deal
with, lol
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 00:46, Michael Brown wrote:

> I believe I answered me own question. I deleted ~/.esd_auth and sounds
> appear to be working so far.
> 
> On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 23:44, mwkbrown wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I downloaded and installed Mandrake 9.2. Everything is great except I
> > have no sounds for events using Gnome 2.4. 
> > 
> > I have selected "Enable Sound Server" and "Sound Events" under sound in
> > the control center. XMMS works fine and .wav files play fine. 
> > 
> > But no sound for events like clicking on a link/button or for Gaim
> > events. 
> > 
> > All sounds work fine in KDE and also when I log into Gnome as root. I
> > suspect a permission problem but not sure what to check.
> > 
> > Any help is appreciated!
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Michael Brown
> > 
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