[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#522072: Bug#522072: Regression of dmix plugin setup

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* zlinuxman at wowway.com [090331 12:46 -0500]
> > How did you checked this?
> 
> I interpret this to mean, "How do you know that dmix was not set up
> during installation?"
> 
> The answer is that it didn't work.  Here's how I found out.  First,
> after the install of the standard Debian GNOME desktop, I installed packages
> gnome-audio libesd-alsa0 esound-clients, and esound.  I then configured
> GNOME for system sounds.
> (System -> Preferences -> Sound -> Sounds Tab, check boxes
> "Enable software sound mixing (ESD)" and "play system sounds".)
> Shutdown and reboot.  GNOME system sounds now works.  However,
> as long as GNOME is running, any application which attempts to produce
> sound directly through ALSA, as opposed to ESD, does not work.

This looks mostly like
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=516081

Elimar

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