Sound issue

[Anton Paulic]

No problem, I hope it helps out.

On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 12:12 -0700, Clayton Anderson wrote:
> Anton Paulic wrote:
> > 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
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> Thanks for the clue, Anton. I'll give it a try.
> 
> Clayton
> 
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