On 18 Jan 2002 22:49:26 +1000, Charles Darcy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 17:44, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> >
> > Perhaps EsounD isn't loaded. Try running 'esd' and see what happens with
> > your GNOME sounds.
> >
>
> Thanks, Sridhar, I tried 'esd' and it played a short series of
> tones, but didn't help with sounds for window events. I tried resetting
> the Gnome sound options, logged in and out, but still with no luck.
>
> Finally, I reinstalled gnome-audio and gnome-audio-extra (both
> 1.4.0-1). SoftwareManager found errors in gnome-audio, so I got a fresh
> copy from a mirror and installed it by hand. Still no success, but now
> when I run 'esd', I get the following error:
>
>
> esd: Failed to fix mode of /tmp/.esd to 1777.
> [rod@localhost rod]$ Try -trust to force esd to start.
> esd: Esound sound daemon unable to create unix domain
> socket:/tmp/.esd/socket
> The socket is not accessible by esd.
> Exiting...
>
>
> If I use the '-trust' option, I hear the same tones as I first did,
> but the windows events are still silent.
Try running GNOME as root. If sound works properly there, then we have a
permissions problem. Load userdrake (as root) and add your username to the
'audio' group.
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