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#79
libesd v libesd-alsa0 and GNOME Sound Preferences
Posted by simonw on Sat 19 Aug 2006 at 23:32
I had libesd, I needed libesd-alsa0, I've no idea how I got the wrong one.
If enabling system sounds seems to mess with your applications ability to share sounds devices, or you can't hear anything when clicking the test buttons in the Sound settings in the GNOME, it could be this. Modern GNU/Linux desktops should just share the sound device between all the applications that want to make a noise, if they don't it is misconfigured, and it is probably easy to fix once you get a rough idea of how it all hangs together, and what technologies are obselete (or ought to be).
See also earlier link about using the ALSA default device is Ekiga.
http://www.debian-administration.org/users/simonw/weblog/76
Life in Sid is hurting this week, guess it is because of all the work going into Etch, so keep making my desktop hurt.
If enabling system sounds seems to mess with your applications ability to share sounds devices, or you can't hear anything when clicking the test buttons in the Sound settings in the GNOME, it could be this. Modern GNU/Linux desktops should just share the sound device between all the applications that want to make a noise, if they don't it is misconfigured, and it is probably easy to fix once you get a rough idea of how it all hangs together, and what technologies are obselete (or ought to be).
See also earlier link about using the ALSA default device is Ekiga.
http://www.debian-administration.org/users/simonw/weblog/76
Life in Sid is hurting this week, guess it is because of all the work going into Etch, so keep making my desktop hurt.