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

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Fri Feb 6 15:43:33 UTC 2009


Le vendredi 06 février 2009 à 23:04 +1100, George Kirkham a écrit :
> > 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

This is included in the kernel package, you need to load the snd-pcm-oss
module. But really, you don’t want that. Just use libesd-alsa0 instead.

> 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.

Unfortunately this is not possible, and it is too late to fix libesd at
this point.

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