No Gaim Sounds with Rhythmbox playing.

[wolovids]

'Tell Totem to use ESD'
(http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2004/06/msg00040.html) 

For the lazy :grin: !

Change: 
# audio driver to use
# string, default: auto
audio.driver:auto 

into 

# audio driver to use
# string, default: auto
audio.driver:esd

in ~/.gnome2/totem_config. Now totem doesn't try to figure out which
sound daemon to use but always uses esd.

For Mplayer, edit the mplayer.conf file and make sure to set 
Code:
--------------------
    ao=esd
--------------------

The file is in the /etc/mplayer directory (I believe).  Check the one
in your local directory too since that would override the global
values.  That should be in ~/.mplayer/

This also made mplayerplug-in for Mozilla Firefox work for me


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wolovids