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

[Julien Valroff]

Hi,

Le jeudi 09 avril 2009 à 21:03 +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit :
> Le jeudi 09 avril 2009 à 19:52 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter a écrit :
> > merge 522072 516081
> > thanks
> > 
> > * Elimar Riesebieter [090406 22:11 +0200]
> > > * 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
> 
> I’m afraid I still don’t get what needs to be fixed for that bug. What
> exactly is using the old path to the socket?

I do not think it is a problem of socket for #516081. I repeat that it
has nothing to do with pulseaudio (not installed at all when I have
described my issue) but with libesd-alsa0.

Cheers,
Julien