On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 18:32, stan wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 04:14:53PM +0000, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 00:22, stan wrote: > > > I'm seting up 2 machines, both have working sound, using mp3blaster > > > for instance. > > > > > > However niether on iringaly had working sounds from Gnome sessions. > > > > > > A helpful list member sugested setting esd to SUID root. > > > > > > This cured the problem on one, but not the other. > > > > > > I can run esd as a user, and I get the startup beeps/ I've checked mixer > > > levels, and they are all set to max. Still no Gnome sounds on the second > > > mahcine. > > > > Try running a sound application like xmms (with the esd plugin) to check > > what error it shows > > > > xmms works perfectly. > > The problem is specificaly sounds generated by Gnome itself.
If xmms works *with the esd plugin*, esd must be fine. Check to make sure that you enabled system sounds in the control panel as well as the starting of the sound server. HTH, Shri -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant 23 McDonald Road Tel: (0131) 558 9990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh EH7 4LX Web: www.urbyte.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
