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You probably have an onboard sound card. ESD is the enlightenment sound daemon that handles the sound server tasks and sound events. I have always had trouble with it, especially for systems with multiple users, UNTIL I install ALSA. Do a little test for yourself, log into Gnome as a user, with the sound server and events going, log back out. At the login screen, hit ctrl/alt/F1 and then log in as root, run "ps -ef" and see if the user that previously logged into Gnome still has processes running, especially the esd processes. They most likely are not shutting off and there is the real problem. Try installing ALSA for your sound, it has worked beautifully every time for me.<BR>
btw, KDE uses the ARTS sound server, that has it's own querks to deal with, lol<BR>
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 00:46, Michael Brown wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><I>I believe I answered me own question. I deleted ~/.esd_auth and sounds
appear to be working so far.
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 23:44, mwkbrown wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I downloaded and installed Mandrake 9.2. Everything is great except I
> have no sounds for events using Gnome 2.4.
>
> I have selected "Enable Sound Server" and "Sound Events" under sound in
> the control center. XMMS works fine and .wav files play fine.
>
> But no sound for events like clicking on a link/button or for Gaim
> events.
>
> All sounds work fine in KDE and also when I log into Gnome as root. I
> suspect a permission problem but not sure what to check.
>
> Any help is appreciated!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Michael Brown
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