[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #121: GNOME system sounds don't work

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#121: GNOME system sounds don't work
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  Reporter:  ekerazha  |       Owner:  lennart 
      Type:  defect    |      Status:  assigned
  Priority:  normal    |   Milestone:          
 Component:  daemon    |    Severity:  normal  
Resolution:            |    Keywords:          
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Comment (by tante):

 I am using Gentoo, pulseaudio version is:

 media-sound/pulseaudio
 Installed versions:  0.9.6-r1

 tante at yatahaze ~ $ grep esound /etc/pulse/default.pa
 load-module module-esound-protocol-unix
 #load-module module-esound-protocol-tcp

 tante at yatahaze ~ $ ls /usr/bin/esd -l
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2007-10-14 22:40 /usr/bin/esd ->
 /usr/bin/esdcompat

 tante at yatahaze ~ $ grep esd /home/tante/.bashrc -b1
 1621-# esound fix for pulseaudio
 1649:if [ ! -e /tmp/.esd-${UID} ]; then
 1684:            ln -s /tmp/.esd /tmp/.esd-${UID}
 1729-fi

 So I think I did pretty much anything I have to do. Pulseaudio itself
 works great, with gstreamer, alsa, xine but esd is problematic, I'm not
 getting gnome sounds or anything else that is supposed to be played
 through esd.

 esdplay for example gives:
 tante at yatahaze ~ $ esdplay /usr/share/sounds/info.wav
 esdplay: pcm_params.c:2351: sndrv_pcm_hw_params: Assertion `err >= 0'
 failed.
 Aborted

 mplayer (with esd output plugin) gives:
 [AO ESD] esd_open_sound failed: No such file or directory
 Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.

 Gentoo's esd (as you can see when you strace its start) is only looking
 for /tmp/.esd/ but that shouldn't be the problem I guess.

 stracing esdplay shows that it is interacting with pulseaudio, I uploaded
 the strace [http://the-gay-bar.com/strace_esdplay.txt here]

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