Re: Gnome and Sound

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "Claudio" == Claudio Bley <bley@cs.uni-magdeburg.de> writes:

    >>>>>> "Jerome" == Jerome BENOIT <benoit@eie.gr> writes:
    Jerome> 'fuser -v /dev/dsp' return nothing.  Claudio Bley wrote:
    >> On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 15:39, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
    >> 
    >>> Bonjour,
    >>> 
    >>> I have just configured Gnome on Woody: whereas I can listen to
    >>> my favorite CD with the cdplayer, I can not ear the sound
    >>> events from Gnome (despite the fact that there are allowed via
    >>> the Gnome control center).  I guess I have missed something.

    Claudio> You need to enable the
    Claudio> "Settings->Multimedia->Sound:Enable sound server startup"
    Claudio> checkbox.

    Claudio> If it is enabled, esd (the sound server) failed to
    Claudio> start. You may try this manually; just run 'esd &' on a
    Claudio> console prompt. Any errors?

And be certain your userid is the 'audio' group.

Like this

$ groups
<userid> dialout cdrom audio src video staff lpadmin
$

If not, as root type 'adduser <userid> audio' and restart your GNOME
session.

Cheers!
Shyamal