On Wednesday 13 December 2000 21:14, you wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 December 2000 20:38, you wrote:
> > Do you get sound? That's the main reason why I consider using helix.
> > Since mandrake 7.2, I no longer have sound with gnome (except for the
> > very first time I login after the install). Even root does not get
> > sound with gnome, so it's not a permission problem.
>
> Yes, I get sound, but then I was getting sound before installing Helix
> Gnome anyway (if I remember correctly). However, my sound card does not
> show up in HardDrake, I had to use sndconfig to get it working.
>
> Is it only Gnome that doesn't give you sound? In other words, do you get
> sound in KDE? Although I do get sound, if I use any of the Gnome desktop
> sound effects, they tend to stutter quite a bit. Instead of getting one
> bell ring, I'll get about 5 or 6. I suspect the problem lies with ESD not
> liking my OPL3-SA card.
>
> Btw, this stuttering problem has plagued me in every Linux distro that I've
> ever run, including Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSE, and Caldera.
>
> RSwaim
My card was always detected automatically just fine. I always had sound
with kde and exactly once with gnome: the very first time I logged in
with gnome after the install. Since then, there was never any sound.
All applications that use esd said that "perhaps there is no sound
support in the kernel". Xmms, for example said that, but if I configure
it to use the oss driver, all was fine. So it's only through esd that
there is a problem.
Well... So far. I just decided to look into that by starting esd
with a strace. My problem was that esd uses tcp (by default?!?!?),
that is is wrapped by tcpd, that my hosts.deny says ALL: ALL and
that my hosts.allow says nothing for esd... I added ALL: localhost
and I now get the glorious sound!!!!!
So. What should hosts.allow actually say for esd?
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Jean Meloche
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