Re: Problems with sound under October Gnome

["Adam \"teferi\" Glasgall" <teferi aether dhs org>]

I've been having the exact same problem. I'm running Debian potato, October
GNOME from packages. I'd appreciate a solution.

On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:20:02AM -0500, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:06:57AM -0400,
> Sean Murphy <murphy@erim-int.com> wrote:
> > My problem is that I only get sound for certain actions under Gnome.
> > For example, clicking the arrows that show/hide the panel makes the
> > 'panel slide' noise.  However, clicking the 'Application minimize'
> > button on a window, nuking a window, selecting an item in the foot menu,
> > all make no sound.  I have 'Gnome Sound Support' and 'Sounds for events'
> > enable in the Gnome Control Center.  If I click the Sound Events tab in
> > the Control Center and look at what sounds are connected to different
> > events, everything looks correct.  If I highlight any event and click
> > the play button the sounds plays correctly.  But in real action, I don't
> > get sounds that I should be getting.
> 
> I'm having the same problems on Debian 2.1 with Gnome installed from
> tarballs. The problem seems only to affect the Gnome event sounds. The
> panel slide makes noise just fine, and I have XMMS playing through esd as
> I type. I reported this (along with many other bugs) when I first
> installed October Gnome, and got no response. Apparently, when they said
> they're not working on 1.0 anymore, they meant it, regardless of whatever
> bugs it may have.
> 
> -- 
> Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> epg@pobox.com
> 
> "Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over an abyss.
>  A dangerous across, a dangerous on-the-way, a dangerous looking-back,
>  a dangerous shuddering and stopping."
>  --Friedrich Nietzsche



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-teferi
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<Adam Glasgall>

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