On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 17:12, WipeOut wrote: > Just fired up GAIM which I have used in the past on RH9.. > > The problem is that there are no sounds being played so if I am not > looking at the screen and a message comes through I don't know about it.. :( > > The soundcard works, when I run sound card detection and play the test > sound its fine.. Also playing internet audio streams and mp3's all work.. > > Anyone got any ideas or the same problem? > > Later.. Yep. Seems that by default only one application at a time can use the /dev/dsp (or whatever). I find everything behaves much better if you locate and enable the Gnome sound server, esd. I find it at: "Start Here"/"Preferences"/"Sound"/"Enable Sound Server at Startup" -- Chris Kloiber
