Re: No sound in Gnome
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Deryk Lister wrote:
> Here's an odd one, it's had me tearing my hair out for hours and I still
> can't figure it out!
> I can't get some gnome apps (specifically, the Gnome Control Center or
> Gabber) to make sounds.
>
> The situation so far:
> esound and OSS are both working, I've tested them both via xmms.
> Sound also works in the KDE environment.
> The Sawfish window manager is making its noises, which means esound is
> definitely working.
> I tried playing sounds from Control Center with esd enabled, and tried it
> again after killing esd. Nada in either case. It doesn't give any errors,
> in fact it looks as if it's playing, but it's silent.
> I was using Xemian Gnome, but tried removing it, deleting /etc/gnome,
> /etc/esound and ~/.gnome* and installing Debian's own packages of Gnome.
> Still nothing.
> /dev/dsp and /dev/sound are both writable by all users.
>
> The system:
> Debian Testing (originally Potato, but upgraded via apt-get dist-upgrade)
> Kernel 2.4.2
> Sound Blaster Live (tried both OSS and ALSA too, no difference)
>
> Any help greatly appreciated! I'm sure it's just something stupid I'm doing,
> but I've now been fiddling with it on and off for days and am almost out of
> hair.
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