I'm no sound guru, but there are a couple of things that may help you.
1) both gnome and kde use different sound daemons and they're probably
conflicting with each other. There should be a way to set these things
to just use alsa. 2) your alsa setup may need to be setup for software
mixing. google "alsa dmixer" and you should get something to help you
there. probably what is happening is the gnome sound daemon is taking
over your soundcard and nothing else can get at it. I'm pretty sure
the gconf editor has a setting to use alsasink instead of esound. look
under g-streamer settings. sorry its vague, but hth.
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I tried messing around with the Multimedia Systems Selector, in the
Gnome Control Centre. To give myself different option from the
osssink it was set on, I installed various other gstreamer packages.
Alas, I now have no sound what-so-ever. It seems to set up perfectly
via alsaconf, identifying my sound card (SoundBlaster Live), but, for
some reason, it sets up for a non-existent card instead:
"4405 7839 (failed: processes still using sound devices:
8064(gnome-settings-)).
/etc/init.d/alsa: Warning: Processes using sound devices:
8064(gnome-settings-).
Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi
snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec snd-util-mem snd-hwdep snd-bt87x
snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd-page-alloc (failed: modules still
loaded: snd-bt87x snd-pcm snd-timer snd-page-alloc).
Building card database..."
ALSA Mixer indicates it is set for a Brooktree bt878, instead of using
snd-emu10k1. How do I fix this?
I did figure this out. I had replaced libesd0 with libesd-alsa0, and
this buggered things up. Putting it back helped restore some sound.
I'm still having the same sound problems I initially described, though
(alsa not loading correctly on boot, and then, after running alsaconf,
having sound from either gnome and general applications with no sound
for kde applications, or having sound for kde and general applications,
with no sound for gnome applications (and occasional errors like "dev
not found, using null output device instead"). While I can live with
this, it is an irritant. I'm hoping the day will come when there's ONE
package, called "sound", that I can chose, and then have sound work on
all the packages, and not just a select few (hmm, yes, I realize this is
just some deluded idealist fantasy, like "world peace", "end of
starvation", etc, but it is good to dream sometimes).
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