[K12OSN] sound in Rhythmbox only works for one user
Petre Scheie
petre at maltzen.net
Thu Aug 17 12:56:48 UTC 2006
Thanks Gideon! That worked...mostly. The gconf-editor wasn't installed (should it have
been?) so yum was my friend. After installing it and making the changes, sound on
Rhythmbox started working for all the users except one. The one difference with this
user is that I copied all her $HOME files from our old 4.2.2 server to her home
directory on this new 5.0 server; she's the only one where I needed to do that. I
suspect that some old setting/file was brought along that is interfering. To copy the
files, I just used ran 'scp oldbox:/home/pam/* /home/pam/' on the new box. This isn't
the best way because it seems to miss any hidden directories, e.g., .ssh/. So, OTOH, if
I did bring along an interfering config file/directory, I'd expect it to be a hidden one
of which I don't think I got many, if any. Any other ideas? Thanks for your help.
Petre
Gideon Romm wrote:
> Petre-
>
> rhythmbox uses gstreamer. if you are using "esd" do this:
>
> 1. log in as a user with "sudo" privileges and run "sudo gconf-editor"
> OR log in and "su" to root (NOTE: "su" not "su -") and run
> "gconf-editor"
> 2. Go to: system > gstreamer > 0.10 > default
> 3. change the audiosink value to: "esdsink" and hit enter
> 4. right click on that field and select "Set as Mandatory"
>
> Next time the user logs in, you should get sound from rhythmbox
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Gadi
>
> On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 16:00 -0500, Petre Scheie wrote:
>> I got Rhythmbox playing sound on the clients for one user (me, not as root), but when
>> others try to play, say MP3 files, nothing happens when they click the Play button: no
>> sound, the timer indicator doesn't move, etc. Perhaps a permissions issue somewhere?
>> It's not a permissions issue on the MP3 files because the users can play those just fine
>> through xmms. Does Rhythmbox need a special rc file or directory or some such in the
>> users home directory which I might have but they're missing?
>>
>> Petre
>>
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