gnome sounds

elbeasto · n00b Joined: 25 Jun 2006 Posts: 42

I managed to get my sound card installed and working, almost.

I can play sound files with mplayer but there are no 'system sounds' in gnome, eg. logging in, system error, gnome game sounds etc.

Any ideas?

Thanks

stupidkid · Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:29 pm Post subject:

You have to install another program for logging in sounds etc.

This might be the right one.

http://gentoo-portage.com/gnome-extra/gnome-audio

elbeasto · n00b Joined: 25 Jun 2006 Posts: 42

z1p101 · n00b Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 20 Location: Syracuse NY

Same thing here, just installed today and EXERYTHING works but system sounds.

Tryed re emerging esound but didn't help. I think that is what gnome uses. If not does anyone know?

Why is it always a sound issue?

Thanks

-Ricky- · Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 1:37 am Post subject:

Same problem here...

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suicidal_orange_II · Apprentice Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 299

Esound is bad, I'll tell you that for nothing, uninstall it and look to setup dmix if it isnt automatic on your card/alsa version.

Are you all trying to hear the gnome sounds when nothing else is playing? If not the soundcard could be busy, and you wont hear anything (see dmix above to resolve this). Personally I hate the sounds your trying to get working, so I dont have gnome-audio installed to test. It would also be helpful to know which version of gnome you are all using, if its a different version chances are its a configuration error not a gnome "bug"

Suicidal_Orange

-Ricky- · Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 1:08 pm Post subject:

Hi, I agree with you Suicidal about Gnome versions.

I'm using Gnome 2.16 and ALSA drivers. :roll:

Everyone here is using Gnome 2.16?

cheers!
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suicidal_orange_II · Apprentice Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 299

I'm home and bored now, so am trying to setup system sounds. It seems it does insist on using esound

All the tests work on the "devices" tab in gnome-sound-properties, but the sounds don't. I am also using gnome 2.16 and alsa.

Using esdplay on the command line does work, so it seems to be a gnome problem. Still, if this is your only problem on an installation I'd say it was a good thing - the sounds only waste resources anyway and surely you can see when you click a button :wink:

Suicidal_Orange

-Ricky- · Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 2:33 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I agree with you... only system sounds not working on a hole new Gentoo/Gnome (unstable) installantion is a good thing.

Besides my Muine that's not working too (dbus/mono or something like), everything is working nice.
A really smooth install.

Thanks for your help Suicidal_Orange
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chrbecke · Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 2:42 pm Post subject:

Go to System->Preferences->Sound, choose "Sounds" tab, check "Enable software sound mixing (ESD)" and "Play system sounds", make sure there are sound files selected for some sound events.
Then, restart your gnome session! (i.e. log out and back into gnome).
I got sounds to work this way on gnome-2.16. If it does not work, make sure you have "esd" in your USE flags and do an emerge -uvDN if needed.

suicidal_orange_II · Apprentice Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 299

Well I'm certainly not going to recompile anything with USE="esd" so my help (if I have been any) is over. Just logging out didn't make the sounds work, so it must be required.

With that said I have to wonder why gnome insist on using esound, it's totally unnecessary with dmix in alsa. Ah well, maybe we should all complain higher up in gnome and maybe they will remove it. Good luck all getting the sounds to work

Suicidal_Orange

-Ricky- · Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 2:31 am Post subject:

That's it!
Thank you chrbecke!
Works perfectly.
This thread must be changed to [Solved].
Thanks suicidal_orange_II too.

Best regards.
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vonr · Guru Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 300