Bug#514216: gnome-desktop-environment: lenny - "System Sounds" do not give sound, MP3 and CD do give sound

[George Kirkham]

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le vendredi 06 février 2009 à 20:58 +1100, George Kirkham a écrit :
>   
>>> That would be libgnome, through the gnome_sound_* functions. It uses
>>> libesd for playback.
>>>   
>>>       
>> I know that replacing libesd0 with libesd-alsa0 will get gnome's
>> System Sounds to work, so I think that there is a bug which is
>> stopping them from working with libesd.
>>     
>
> Right, that’s because the OSS emulation layer is not loaded by default
> any more.
What package would function as a OSS emulation layer for Debian 
Lenny/testing

> I have made libesd-alsa0 the default in the new esound version, but the
> version in lenny/unstable is utterly broken.
>
>   
Of course, if gnome-desktop-environment will depend libesd-alsa0, and 
hopefully the bugs in unstable for sound are resolved, then my current 
concerns do not matter as the sound environment will be greatly changed.

Thanks for your replies, I will wait until Lenny progresses to stable.

If I can help in testing lenny's sound at any stage, please let me know.