[Hoary] Sound problems

[Alf-Ivar Holm]

Eamonn Sullivan <eamonn.sullivan at gmail.com> writes:

> I still am not sure if the developers think this misfeature of
> polpyaudio will be fixed before release. I get the distinct feeling
> that I'm one of the very few affected.

Well, I've figured that I have the same problem on the Ubuntu box I'm
setting up now.  I got the sound working for my account, but not my
mother's, which is going to be the main account.  

Of the information you gave in an earlier mail I figured that all that
had to be done was to add some read/write/execute permissions for
/tmp/.esd, something a la:

        chmod -R g+rwxs /tmp/.esd; chgrp -R audio /tmp/.esd

but when I did, it didn't work for the other accounts - and it even
stopped working for mine!?  Reverting to the original permissions:

        drwx------  2 affi affi 4096 2005-03-04 15:04 /tmp/.esd
        srwxr-xr-x  1 affi affi 0 2005-03-04 15:04 /tmp/.esd/socket

worked.

I guess I can nuke the .esd directory and rerun the disable/enable
exercise for the main user, but in general I'll vote for a fix before
release, especially since Ubuntu is targeting the desktop market and a
desktop without sound isn't that funky these days.

	Affi