Gnome - it's quiet... too quiet...

[Ralph GL]

Hello all,

I was a bit at a loss where to post this, but I'm sure it's not a hardware problem as it seems only to happen in Gnome.

I installed Red Hat 7.1 (to see how it differed from SuSE). The sound was very low anyway, until I configured the sound card using the graphical interface from the KDE menu (for some reason I couldn't execute sndconfig from a terminal ??!!??). After that, however, the sound in KDE is fine.

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work in Gnome. I have, of course, made sure that the sound server is enabled in startup via the Gnome menu.

The CD player in Gnome works, but at very low volume. However, the system doesn't want to play .wav files (ie. system sounds). Not tried it with XMMS yet.

Any thoughts?

Cheers
Ralph

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

I usually make sure that the artsd daemon is running. I can't get sound in any WM if I don't have that running. Just type

artsd start &

at the command prompt.

It's very important that you run it in the background (hence the &) because it'll freeze your terminal otherwise :)

[Silent Bob]

GNOME uses the esd, while KDE uses artsd.

Try running gmix in GNOME and see what happens.