Sound issue

[Anton Paulic]

Yup
And also, the gnome libs don't seem to be compiled to use them.
So after you install the gnome-audio package, you can play the sounds
directly but the system events don't trigger the audio (I had to do an
update system to get the newest gnome libs and then the sound events
worked).

On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 10:50 -0700, Clayton Anderson wrote:
> Anton Paulic wrote:
> > esound should take care of sound mixing in gnome..you shouldn't require
> > arts (arts is primarily kde, but of course you could use it if you want
> > to)
> > That being said, I just installed ubuntu yesterday and sound works fine
> > with esound (so long as you install gnome-audio and update the gnome
> > libs)
> > 
> > On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 12:47 -0400, Crispian Thorne wrote:
> > 
> >>Am I being really dumb here?
> >>
> >>
> >>>crispian at ubuntu ~ $ artsd firefox
> >>>bash: artsd: command not found
> >>>crispian at ubuntu ~ $
> >>
> >>
> >>On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 16:03 +0100, Colin Yates wrote:
> >>
> >>>I believe artsd is the traditional way of solving this, i.e.:
> >>>
> >>>    artsd firefox
> >>>
> >>>assuming sound server *is* running.
> >>>
> >>>However, this is not particular friendly, and it wouldn't suprise me
> >>>if ubuntu has a nicer way.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 10:56 -0400, Crispian Thorne wrote: 
> >>>
> >>>>Great Distro!!!
> >>>>
> >>>>I had the usual problem of no sound until I opened Volume Control &
> >>>>turned it up, but now something new has cropped up- sound was working
> >>>>fine in Firefox until I turned on "Enable sound server startup" &
> >>>>"Sounds for events" (I have some Homestarrunner sounds I've grown rather
> >>>>fond of), now no sound in Firefox.
> >>>>
> >>>>If I turn off "Enable sound server startup" & reboot I get sounds back
> >>>>in Firefox (but if I open firefox first & it plays sound & then I turn
> >>>>on "Enable sound server startup", I get no system sounds 'til I reboot).
> >>>>
> >>>>Seems whoever grabs the sound card first won't share :(
> >>>>
> >>>>This is probably something incredibly easy to fix- but I've only had one
> >>>>cup of coffee this morning.
> >>>>
> >>>>Cris
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > 
> 
> I have the exact same problem. Are you saying that gnome-audio package 
> is not installed by default in Ubuntu?
> 
> Clayton
> 
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