Bug#513752: debian-installer: lenny - "System Sounds" do not give sound, MP3 and CD do give sound.
Package: debian-installer
Version: lenny
Severity: important
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
For a lenny install of Debian, gnome-audio was not installed, after manualy installing gnome-audio, "System
Sounds" from menu "System -> Preferences -> Sound -> Sounds tab -> "Enable software sound mixing (ESD)" and
"Play system sounds" are both enabled, however selecting the "Play" button for any of the system sounds
does not produce any sound.
If I install other packages like esound and libesd-alsa0, then I can get sound to work, but this affects
the working of sound for other systems just as sun-java package.
I believe that not all the required packages to support sound are being installed (just as gnome-audio is
not installed during the debian (lenny) installation.
This issue also occurred in Debian etch 4.0 r6 but the behavour after installing libesd-alsa0 was slightly
different.
If this issue is not with a required package not being installed, then it may be with a faulty sound module
?
Below is output from "aptitude show esound" clients and common.
aptitude show esound
Package: esound
State: not installed
Version: 0.2.36-3
Priority: optional
Section: sound
Maintainer: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>
Uncompressed Size: 49.2k
Depends: libaudiofile0 (>= 0.2.3-4), libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), libesd0 (>= 0.2.35) | libesd-alsa0 (>= 0.2.35),
libwrap0,
esound-common (>= 0.2.36-3)
Provided by: pulseaudio-esound-compat
Description: Enlightened Sound Daemon - Support binaries
This program is designed to mix together several digitized audio streams for playback by a single device.
gkirkham@tuxpc11:~$ aptitude show esound-clients
Package: esound-clients
State: not installed
Version: 0.2.36-3
Priority: optional
Section: sound
Maintainer: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>
Uncompressed Size: 127k
Depends: libaudiofile0 (>= 0.2.3-4), libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), libesd0 (>= 0.2.35) | libesd-alsa0 (>= 0.2.35),
esound-common (>= 0.2.36-3)
Conflicts: libesd0 (< 0.2.36-1), libesd-alsa0 (< 0.2.36-1)
Description: Enlightened Sound Daemon - clients
Utilities that control and interact with the Enlightened Sound Daemon.
gkirkham@tuxpc11:~$ aptitude show esound-common
Package: esound-common
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 0.2.36-3
Priority: optional
Section: sound
Maintainer: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>
Uncompressed Size: 69.6k
Description: Enlightened Sound Daemon - Common files
This program is designed to mix together several digitized audio streams for playback by a single device.
This package contains the documentation and configuration files.
Output from Hard Info.
snd_pcm Midlevel PCM code for ALSA.
snd_seq Advanced Linux Sound Architecture sequencer.
snd_timer ALSA timer interface
snd_seq_device ALSA sequencer device management
snd Advanced Linux Sound Architecture driver for soundcards.
soundcore Core sound module
snd_page_alloc Memory allocator for ALSA system.
button ACPI Button Driver
i2c_sis96x SiS96x SMBus driver
i2c_core I2C-Bus main module
shpchp Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver
pci_hotplug PCI Hot Plug PCI Core
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