Gnome sound (PPC)

[Michel Klijmij]

On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 12:58:26 -0400, Nathaniel McCallum
<npmccallum at canonical.com> wrote in
<1097254706.4591.6.camel at localhost.localdomain>:

> On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 16:40 +0200, Michel Klijmij wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have something of a sound problem. Gnome has no sound for events,
>> despite enabling it. However, applications like Rhythmbox, XMMS,
>> Realplayer etc work fine.
>> 
>> How do I make the sound work for Gnome?
>> 
>> Another issue is that sound by default goes to the built-in speakers,
>> instead of the line out. By muting the speakers this gets resolved, but
>> the Gnome volume applet doesn't seem to remember that next time I log in.
>> 
>> All this on an iMac Rev.A (G3).
> 
> Do you have ubuntu-sounds installed?

I have discovered that it was due to my toying with ALSA. Apparently the
iMac soundcard isn't supported by ALSA (at least not in a "just works"
way). ESD/OSS works fine, so I have my system sounds and it was all my own
fault.

All that is lacking now is the mixer settings saving. It's more of a GNOME
issue than specific for Ubuntu but maybe there's the combined PPC/GNOME
knowledge here on how to make that work properly (ie send sound to the
line out instead of the built-in speakers).

-- 
Kind regards,

Michel Klijmij
ICQ/MSN in headers    http://michel.klijmij.net/