Bug#514216: gnome-desktop-environment: lenny - "System Sounds" do not give sound, MP3 and CD do give sound

[Josselin Mouette]

Le vendredi 06 février 2009 à 20:58 +1100, George Kirkham a écrit :
> > That would be libgnome, through the gnome_sound_* functions. It uses
> > libesd for playback.
> >   
> I know that replacing libesd0 with libesd-alsa0 will get gnome's
> System Sounds to work, so I think that there is a bug which is
> stopping them from working with libesd.

Right, that’s because the OSS emulation layer is not loaded by default
any more.

I have made libesd-alsa0 the default in the new esound version, but the
version in lenny/unstable is utterly broken.

> Are you able to reproduce the issue that I have reported (that is, do 
> you have a PC that you can install nothing but a Debian Lenny standard 
> desktop and install gnome-sound and enable gnome's "System Sounds". It 
> would be nice to know that others also have this problem.

Again, I don’t think anyone in the team is interested enough in system
sounds to work on them.

Cheers,
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