Sound issue

[Colin Yates]

My apologies.  esound is the gnome sound daemon :)

Maybe I should have had some coffee first ;)

Clayton Anderson wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>>
>
> Isn't artsd the KDE sound server?
>
> Clayton
>
>