No sound after updating to polypaudio

[Justin Mason]

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Remy Maucherat writes:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:29:13 -0800, Joe Barnett <thejoe at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm having the same problems, but I can't even hear gnome sounds (can
> > you still hear them even after logging out and back in?)....  paplay
> > /path/to/wav/file works fine, though....
> 
> The only functional gstreamer plugin before the polypaudio update was
> ESD. Now, it is not working aymore.
> 
> I can get the ALSA gstreamer plugin to work one time out of ten (weird
> but true), so it's not a very good user experience. Select Gnome
> sounds are working (in particular GDM sounds).
> I've had a far better experience with OSS with my soundcard.

you need to either (a) use ESD/polypaudio for all apps, or (b)
setup the ALSA dmix plugin to do ALSA software mixing.  or (c),
both, which covers all eventualities. ;)

It'd be great if Hoary could set up the dmix plugin by default,
btw -- that makes things a lot less painful for those of us
with low-end sound hardware and on-board chipsets.

- --j.
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