[repost] Deryk Lister wrote: > Here's an odd one, it's had me tearing my hair out for hours and I still > can't figure it out! > I can't get some gnome apps (specifically, the Gnome Control Center or > Gabber) to make sounds. > > The situation so far: > esound and OSS are both working, I've tested them both via xmms. > Sound also works in the KDE environment. > The Sawfish window manager is making its noises, which means esound is > definitely working. > I tried playing sounds from Control Center with esd enabled, and tried it > again after killing esd. Nada in either case. It doesn't give any errors, > in fact it looks as if it's playing, but it's silent. > I was using Xemian Gnome, but tried removing it, deleting /etc/gnome, > /etc/esound and ~/.gnome* and installing Debian's own packages of Gnome. > Still nothing. > /dev/dsp and /dev/sound are both writable by all users. > > The system: > Debian Testing (originally Potato, but upgraded via apt-get dist-upgrade) > Kernel 2.4.2 > Sound Blaster Live (tried both OSS and ALSA too, no difference) > > Any help greatly appreciated! I'm sure it's just something stupid I'm doing, > but I've now been fiddling with it on and off for days and am almost out of > hair.
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