What's wrong with my sound system?

[Paul Barnfather <plb clanger9 demon co uk>]

I'm having trouble diagnosing GNOME's sound on Solaris 2.6 (sparc).
I could use some advice.

Using latest release of everything, i.e. audiofile-0.1.7, esound-0.2.13

GNOME proces no sounds at all. Not even a click. :-(

If I go to Control Center, and try to play a sound, the console reports:
	Audio File Library: error 5: Unix read failed

	Gnome-WARNING **: error caching sample <1>!

If I go to the esound source dir, and try `esdplay test.wav`, I
get a distorted (but audible) sound, with the following errors:
	Audio File Library: error 5: Unix read failed
	Audio File Library: error 5: Unix read failed

If I go to /usr/local/share/sounds, and try `esdplay login.wav`,
I just get noise and the same error message.

I don't understand the GNOME sound system at all. I really need to
pin down where the problem is so I can try to get it fixed...
Audiofile seems unhappy on Solaris, so this is the prime suspect.
But the author doesn't have a Solaris machine, so I'll need to
give a specific bug report (if that's where the problem lies).

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