RE: gnome-control-center-3.10.3 no sound from speaker test

[John Frankish <j-frankish slb com>]

> > > > On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 13:35 +0000, John Frankish wrote:
> > > > Using gnome-control-center-3.10.3 with pulseaudio-5.0 I don't get
> > > > any sound from the speaker test - note that the default sounds
> > > > (bark, drip, sonar) work and I can play music with rhythmbox, xmms, etc.
> > > >
> > > > I attached the output from "gnome-control-center -v sound", but
> > > > it's not obvious (to me at least) why the speaker test doesn't work.
> > >
> > > Best file a bug. A small screencast of the reproducer would also be useful.
> > > Could be a volume problem, in which case the easiest way to make
> > > sure that you're in a good initial setup would be to remove all the files in ~/.pulse/.
> > 'Not sure what is meant by "screencast of the reproducer"?
> >
> > Do you mean screenshot  - see attached? Note that the volume level is OK
> as I can hear music and the default sounds without problems.
>
> Did you install sound-theme-freedesktop?
>
> You'll need a sound theme with sounds with names like:
> audio-channel-front-center.oga
> audio-channel-front-left.oga
> audio-channel-front-right.oga
> audio-channel-rear-center.oga
> audio-channel-rear-left.oga
> audio-channel-rear-right.oga
> audio-channel-side-left.oga
> audio-channel-side-right.oga
>
> Otherwise, no sound to play...

Ah-ha - another undocumented run-time dep :)

Thanks for that - things now work.

John