Gnome 2.0.2 update broke my sound?

Arker · Apprentice Joined: 10 Sep 2002 Posts: 205

A couple of days ago I upgraded to the newer version of Gnome2 using the portage system and after successful compile and an X restart, the Gnome sounds are gone!

I can hear mp3s in xmms and I can play .wav files no problem, I just can't get the Gnome sounds to play. I've gone into the control center and the settings (Enable sound server startup, and Sounds for events) are checked as they were before the upgrade. Even when I select a sound in the Sound Events tab and click the play button I hear nothing... And those are just wav files as well... I can play those files by 'play /usr/share/sounds/name.wav just fine.

I'm stumped again. Any suggestions?

Cheers,
Arker.

snr.mckay · Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2002 2:59 am Post subject: Same prob

I have the same problem...still investigating.

On the lighter side of things, Gnome2 is fast and gorgeous!
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Arker · Apprentice Joined: 10 Sep 2002 Posts: 205

I'll keep looking as well.. If ya find the culprit, please post it here... I'll do the same.

Cheers,
Arker.

berhr · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 11:37 pm Post subject:

I had similar symptoms myself, up until a day or two ago - although I don't think the Gnome 2.0.2 upgrade broke anything on my system.

Turned out that, in my case, the Enlightened Sound Daemon (esd) was not starting up correctly. The sound server was set to start up with Gnome, but when I did

pawling · n00b Joined: 20 Oct 2002 Posts: 25

I had the same problem. I could use XMMS, etc without any problems, but sound events would not play. In my case it was a matter of using the wrong configuration tool. After the update, I went to the menu Applications -> Sound & Video -> Sound, which brought up the Gnome Control Center. Everything appeared to be set correctly, but no sounds would play. I discovered that I should have went to the menu Applications -> Desktop Preferences -> Sound, which brought up the new configuration tool for sound. After enabling the sound server and sounds for events here, event sounds would again play.

wouzer · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2003 7:54 am Post subject:

Thanks, this helped me a lot! I didn't realise dat I don't need Alsa when I compiled my sounddriver into the kernel. Also that other configure tool was a good one, but isn't that strange? It should be the same thing, or am I wrong? I had the same kind of problem with my pda settings. Is Gnome control center broken or something?
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