[aclug-L] Re: GNOME sound or the lack thereof

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just off hand, I might wonder if the KDE sound is conflicting with
Gnome.  Gnome uses the esd for sound, which may not be able to get the 
port if KDE is using it.

"David H. Spurlock" <DHS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Caldera 2.3 shredded itself last night. Netscape locked-up KDE so tight that
> no key combination would free it up. I was forced to power down and reboot.
> The filesystem showed FAIL during the attempted reboot. This is the second
> time that COL2.3 has done this to me. I decided that I was through with
> Caldera at this point. I would love to say the same about Netscape!
> 
> I did a fresh install of RH6.0. I ran the sndconfig tool and setup the
> soundcard. Sound is OK in KDE but I can not get sound to work in GNOME. I
> went into the System Settings to system sounds and enabled both of the
> checkboxes. There was no sound when I clicked on the sound event in the
> right panel and then on the play button. Almost all of my experience has
> been with Caldera and KDE. What am I missing?
> 
> Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> David Spurlock
> Senior Technician 
> Interex/XLR8 Tech Support 
> 
> 

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