No sound after updating to polypaudio

[Remy Maucherat]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:09:50 -0800, Justin Mason <jm at jmason.org> wrote:
> 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. ;)

I did try b), and it didn't work. I'll check to see if I did it right.

> 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.

Rémy