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Nazgulled
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 Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 1:56 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] GNOME system sounds not working |
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Hi,
I have emerged gnome-audio but when I press the "play" buttons on the Sound Preferences, none of the sounds is played, am I missing something? MP3 files play fine in totem, am I missing some package/codec or USE flag?
Why are the system sounds not playing?
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Knute
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| Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 2:13 pm Post subject: |
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If there are no errors, then you need to make sure that nothing is muted, or turned all the way down.
Since other sounds play, then your equipment is on and working.
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Nazgulled
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| Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 2:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Nope, no errors at all, I press the button and nothing happens... I enabled all the sliders, turned them all up and unmute them, still no system sounds... |
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Knute
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| Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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Well, then, I don't know.
I just tried it on my system as well, same thing.
Though, there was a message about the .esd_auth file existing, and something about an IOR not being set, and a registry couldn't be found; but, since I'm not running gnome ATM.
What happens when you open the gnome-sound-properties from a terminal and try to play a test sound?
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Nazgulled
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| Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Knute wrote: | | What happens when you open the gnome-sound-properties from a terminal and try to play a test sound? |
Nothing happens, no output whatsoever in the terminal... |
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NeoWolf
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| Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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I seem to recall reading that auto-launching esd was removed in the 2.18 upgrade. So out of curiosity are you running esd for Gnome?
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Nazgulled
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:53 am Post subject: |
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| I don't believe I am... Should I enable that USE flag and emerge -uDN world? |
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NeoWolf
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:29 am Post subject: |
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| Nazgulled wrote: | | I don't believe I am... Should I enable that USE flag and emerge -uDN world? |
I'm fairly certain it needs it, but you'll also need to be running the daemon itself by adding it to your default run list.
Aha! here we go: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/gnome/howtos/gnome-2.18-upgrade.xml?style=printable
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Knute
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:03 am Post subject: |
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That's interesting. What about if you have pulse set up with esd support??
| Code: | 2:01AM # /etc/init.d/esound start /home/knute (root)
* Starting esound ... [ !! ]
2:01AM # eselect esd list /home/knute (root)
Available ESounD implementations:
[1] ESounD original
[2] PulseAudio *
2:01AM # /home/knute (root) |
Just curious.
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Knute
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 8:20 am Post subject: |
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Never mind. Found the answer to my own question on pulseaudios wiki page.
| Quote: | GNOME ¶
Current GNOME versions have support for starting ESD on session startup. Because PulseAudio can be used as drop-in replacement for ESD you can fool GNOME to load the PulseAudio daemon just like the traditional ESD daemon. To achieve this use the esdcompat script shipped with PulseAudio. Create a symlink from /usr/bin/esd to this script:
$ ln -sf /usr/local/bin/esdcompat /usr/bin/esd
(Make sure to fix the path passed to ln)
That's it. Now GNOME should load and make use of PulseAudio automatically on each login. (unless of course you disabled the option "Enable software sound mixing (ESD)" in GNOME's Sound Preferences. |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 9:04 am Post subject: |
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| Cool, Thx for this informations. |
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Nazgulled
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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| It is working now =D |
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pzasso
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| Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 9:13 am Post subject: |
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| This did not fix it for me. I ended up having to run /etc/init.d/esound start to get the systems sounds to play. All other sounds, ie: music etc. was working fine before and after starting esound. |
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josedb
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| Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 3:57 am Post subject: |
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| iam still having the same problem, from a fresh install with esd use flag enabled. |
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yuhu
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| Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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me too - no sound with pulseaudio as esound replace
* use flags pulseaudio and esd are enabled
* eslect esd --> pulseaudio ist enable
* link to esdcompat ist set
asound.conf
| Code: | pcm.pulse {
type pulse
}
ctl.pulse {
type pulse
}
pcm.!default {
type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
type pulse
} |
ist there any config missing?
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btw. i could not find padsp too run oss programms - which package must be installed? |
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Knute
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:14 am Post subject: |
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| yuhu wrote: |
btw. i could not find padsp too run oss programms - which package must be installed? |
Ok. Easy one first:
| Code: | 10:08PM % equery b padsp ~ (knute)
[ Searching for file(s) padsp in *... ]
media-sound/pulseaudio-0.9.8-r6 (/usr/bin/padsp)
10:09PM % ~ (knute) |
Ok, now, the only thing that I can think of is using pavumeter while playing a sound to see if there is actually sound being generated.
Because I can only think that, from what you've said, it's either something may be muted or off, or not plugged in   or somethings not configured right.
If it's the former, pavumeter should show something, if it's the latter then pavumeter most likely wouldn't.
HTH
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yuhu
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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padsp - was my fault
i just reemerged pulseaudio with oss use-flag
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i still miss sound in gnome - any config hints? |
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yuhu
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| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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gnome system sound - solved
just remove pulseaudio from default runlevel
pulseaudio starts now NOT as systemwide sounddaemon - but on my laptop there work only 1 user - me |
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josedb
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| Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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| i solved the problem but i had to compile the kernel with the alsa audio driver, and not use the module. |
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