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Re: sound but no sound



On Wednesday 02 October 2002 10:12, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 09:46:47AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > On Wednesday 02 October 2002 09:38, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> > > Sound is working in that I get gnome desktop sound events but other
> > > programs like xmms or mp3blaster or freeamp just hang.
> > >
> > > I'm current on testing (sid). Sound used to work properly so some
> > > upgrade changed something but I have no clue what.
> > >
> > > What do I have set wrong? Where do I check?
> >
> > GNOME uses esound to allow multiple programs to send audio data.  You
> > need to enable esd support in these other programs.
>
> How do I do that? Is that a gnome setting or does each individual
> program need to be told? I didn't spot 'esd' anywhere in the xmms
> preferences nor do I see anything in the gnome sound control panel.

It is per app.  In xmms look for the output plugin control.  You may need to 
install a xmms-esd or xmms-esound package.  I do not use esound (or GNOME) 
but I have seen it come up enough on this list to have learned the answer (-:



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