Bug#513774: gnome-desktop-environment: lenny install - gnome-audio not installed by default

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mardi 03 février 2009 à 18:36 +1100, George Kirkham a écrit :
> My point is that gnome has a sound theme and it is not installed by 
> default, which just seems strange. If someone does not like the sound 
> theme then it would be easy to "turn it off" but for the average user it 
> would nice if it was actually installed, even it if was not enabled by 
> default.

My point is that installing this sound theme by default would be a
disservice to our users.

> Would you be able to answer a related question for me. I find that even 
> when I install gnome-audio and enable the sound theme, it does not 
> produce sound. I believe that this is because gnome uses ALSA by default 
> while Debian installs OSS by default. Is there a gnome OSS library that 
> can be installed to allow gnome to produce sound in a default 
> installation of Debian (after gnome-audio is installed and System Sounds 
> are installed).

The default for GStreamer is not ALSA but the autosink, which does
autodetection (leading, without esound running, to ALSA).

First of all, you need to change the settings to launch the sound
daemon; it should then be used automatically by applications. If you
want it to use ALSA you also need to install libesd-alsa0.

Cheers,
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