Debian Gnome and sound

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Hello All!

I have decided to go the gnome route as it "feels" faster than KDE...

The only problem is the I cannot get sound to work (it was working fine in KDE2)

Do I have to start the esound deamon at startup? If so, how? I can put it in a startup script, but don't know which options, etc to use.

BTW, my system (otherwise going smoothly) is:
Debian unstable
Ximian Gnome
PIII 450
esssolo1 sound card (compiled into the kernel)
kernel 2.4.1

Thanks in advance!

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Sound is really unconnected to the desktop.

You don't have to have start ESD at start up.

Maybe the volume is just turned way down? use gnome-mixer-applet to change it.

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Thanks for the reply...

I tried the mixer applet, the sound is at full volume (I can actually start to hear feedback!)...

What I am not getting is the "window manager" sounds (i.e. gnome startup, window open, etc...)

Any ideas?