Gnome October and sound events

[Anthony Yu <pyrosius pacbell net>]

Greetings all,

I recently upgraded to gnome october from stock gnome in Redhat 6.1.
Since doing this, sound events do not seem to function properly.
Specifically,
user interface events (clicking on a button, menu item, or checkbox) do
not
play the appropriate sounds.

The sounds associated with sliding the panel continues to play, gnobots
sounds continue to play, even that rather loud crashing noise when you
delete a core file or somesuch in gmc plays. The relevant .wav files all

seem to play properly when using esdplay from the command line. The
only other sound besides the user interface sounds which do not play
occassionally is the sound which for when the logout confirmation
dialog box appears. This occassionally is silent as well for some
reason.

The only other upgrade from stock Redhat 6.1 is Enlightenment DR16,
but I have tried using DR15.5 as well and it exhibits the same behavior.

I have also disabled gdm since at least one other member of the list
has wondered about beta2's affect on esd.

Perusing the message archives I saw someone having a similar problem
after upgrading past gnome 1.0.40, though I can't draw a relation
between the two cases.

Any help would be appreciated.
pyrosius@pacbell.net