> How did you checked this? I interpret this to mean, "How do you know that dmix was not set up during installation?"
The answer is that it didn't work. Here's how I found out. First, after the install of the standard Debian GNOME desktop, I installed packages gnome-audio libesd-alsa0 esound-clients, and esound. I then configured GNOME for system sounds. (System -> Preferences -> Sound -> Sounds Tab, check boxes "Enable software sound mixing (ESD)" and "play system sounds".) Shutdown and reboot. GNOME system sounds now works. However, as long as GNOME is running, any application which attempts to produce sound directly through ALSA, as opposed to ESD, does not work. It cannot open the audio device because ESD has it. I run Debian, not Ubuntu. But I found instructions on an Ubuntu forum for how to enable dmix. Since Ubuntu is based on Debian, it stands to reason that if it's broken in Debian, it's probably broken in Ubuntu as well. Here's the link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=32063 I followed the instructions on this web page to create /etc/asound.conf, shutdown and reboot, and it worked. It worked even without changing ESD to auto-spawn. If dmix was enabled by default, then it would have just worked. I wouldn't have had to create /etc/asound.conf. It would have already been there, and multiple opens of the audio device by multiple applications would have worked without intervention. That's how I know. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
