locale and sound in Dapper

[crimsun at fungus.sh.nu]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 10:08:06AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> 1.  I could not get the system's sound to work from the start as
> I expected it.  Only after a "killall esd" did I have some
> success using xmms and something like "saytime".  I could not
> get my timidity or aplaymidi to play midi files even after
> inserting the snd-seq - midi-modules.  

System> Preferences> Sound allows you to uncheck the sound server
startup selection.

XMMS should use the ALSA plugin in its audio i/o plugins preferences.

snd-seq should be loaded manually.

> I could also not find the "multi-media selector" in the menus on
> Gnome - something that I have used on Breezy.

It has been hidden; invoke gstreamer-properties from the command line.

> How do I set the default locale?  In the past I could use
> dpkg-reconfigure locales, but that does not do the job any more.

Please read /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED and pass the first field of
whichever locales you want generated to sudo locale-gen. An alternate
method is to use System> Administration> Language Support.

Thanks,
-- 
Daniel T. Chen            crimsun at ubuntu.com
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