Bug#453105: general: Gnome + Sound problem

[Sven Arvidsson]

> As users of Gnome should know, in order to enable Gnome System sounds
> (login sound, logout sound, gdm ready sound, click on command sound
> etc..) it is necessary to go to Preferences->Sound and 
> enable sounds by software (ESD), and mark for play System sounds, and
> also have gnome-audio installed.
> The problem is that when i enable ESD, many other aplications stop
> sounding, and if i try to play a WAV file with aplay command, it
> reports to me that my audio device is busy. This is my audio 
> device:
> 
> 00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev
> 06)
> 
> I think this is a bug of Debian becouse this problem is not present in
> other Linux distributions with Gnome in which ESD and aplay work
> together, and by this i know that my sound card support 
> full duplex and can be used by both of them at the same time; in
> addiction in old releases of Debian, i am sure that this problem was
> not present.
> 
> This problem is now pressent in Etch, Lenny and Sid.

Hi,

Did installing libesd-alsa0 or PulseAudio solve this problem for you?

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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