On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 15:35 +0100, Mark Howard wrote: > Not sure if this is of any help, but worth a try. > > I have a similar setup. I find that sound only works with certain applications > depending on whether "Enable sound server setup" option is on in gnome. If it > is > on, I get sound in gnome, but e.g. totem doesn't work (in fact, totem will > just > crash). If it is off, totem works but gnome doesn't have any sound. > Does anyone know how to fix this? >
For me everything works flawless. I have a 2.6.8.1 kernel (and I have been using the 2.6.x kernels since beta4). Alsa drivers with a SoundBlaster Live card. My setup is: $> cat /etc/esound/esd.conf [esd] auto_spawn=1 spawn_options=-terminate -nobeeps -as 3 spawn_wait_ms=100 And I enable the sound server from Gnome's sound preferences. Alsa is configured with OSS compatibility (as everybody usually does). So usually esd quits afer 3 seconds (or so) of not being used. Totem works perfectly (totem-xine here). And all Gstreamer dependant apps use esdsink pipeline as the default sink (Applications->Desktop Preferences->Advance->Multimedia System Selector. Or simply the gstreamer gconf keys with gconf-editor). Sometimes when you upgrade Hal or dbus and not the other(s) (gnome- volume-manager, etc...) things get a bit flaky, but eventually they get in sync again (if you upgrade often enough). The best solution is, of course, to stay with a combination of those apps that work and don't upgrade :-) But apt-get'ing is so simple and the temptation of getting the latest version of X binary is so great... you know the deal.
