Re: Gnome sound not working, how to troubleshoot?
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 01:45:54PM +0000, Shri Shrikumar wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 18:32, stan wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 04:14:53PM +0000, Shri Shrikumar wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 00:22, stan wrote:
> > > > I'm seting up 2 machines, both have working sound, using mp3blaster
> > > > for instance.
> > > >
> > > > However niether on iringaly had working sounds from Gnome sessions.
> > > >
> > > > A helpful list member sugested setting esd to SUID root.
> > > >
> > > > This cured the problem on one, but not the other.
> > > >
> > > > I can run esd as a user, and I get the startup beeps/ I've checked mixer
> > > > levels, and they are all set to max. Still no Gnome sounds on the second mahcine.
> > >
> > > Try running a sound application like xmms (with the esd plugin) to check
> > > what error it shows
> > >
> >
> > xmms works perfectly.
> >
> > The problem is specificaly sounds generated by Gnome itself.
>
>
> If xmms works *with the esd plugin*, esd must be fine. Check to make
> sure that you enabled system sounds in the control panel as well as the
> starting of the sound server.
I have both check boxes check in teh Gnome sound control panel.
Not certain what special flags ? you want me to give to xmms?
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