Dale: >I have Fluxbox installed here too. I logged out of KDE and into >Fluxbox. Seamonkey does NOT play the sound when in Fluxbox.
:) >It appears that KDE takes care of that when I am logged into it. So, >you may need to figure out how to make the GUI take care of yours. I seem to recall from the wine groups, that KDE uses pulseaudio. And this one is causing a lot of trouble in wine. >This is from -dev. Note the last paragraph: > >"Hi folks, > >Today, I was shocked to find that the EsounD daemon is still in the tree >and new ebuilds are actually still pulling it in under USE=esd! > >Proposal: package.mask media-sound/esound, use.mask USE=esd. Anything >that still uses it should stop using it. Anything that /needs it/ should >be purged from the tree with extreme prejudice[1]. > >I'll do the first two today, and the rest of the rituals necessary to >complete the exorcism will take a month. Help in this regard is welcome >since the job is rather straightforward. *URKS*. Hm, how to translate this one into English? *g* >Thanks! > >1. In exceptional cases, a dependency on pulseaudio will also suffice >since pulseaudio emulates an esound socket while running with >`module-protocol-esound-unix` loaded, which is the default. >Have you tried pulseaudio? No. And i do *not* want pulseaudio. >Also, it seems esound is a Gnome sort of thing. It would be interesting to know, if Gnome is using pulseaudio... >Maybe see what they are using nowadays and try that. ...and if not, what else. >Other than this, I have no other ideas. It seems you need some sort of >sound daemon. Question is which one. Good question. :-D Hartmut -- Usenet-ABC-Wiki http://www.usenet-abc.de/wiki/ Von Usern fuer User :-)
