Sound test/preview doesn't work

Thanks for your bug. That works fine here. Do you use esound/polypaudio/alsa?

(In reply to comment #1)
> Thanks for your bug. That works fine here.

Ah well, just me again then... bad luck :-/

> Do you use esound/polypaudio/alsa?

Huuu, I am not very confident with all this multimedia/audio/video stuff.
All I can say is that when I installed Colony #2, Gnome was freezing/locking,
and a developer (Martin Pitt ?) told me to install "libesd0" which would replace
"libesd-alsa0". So I did that. It fixed the problem with Gnome freezing, but at
first I had some problems playing sounds. So I had the (bad?) idea to open the
"Gstreamer-properties" applet in the Preferences menu, and played with the
"Audio default sink" setting until it worked. Now the sound works perfectly (but
sound preview in GDM GUI of course ;o), and the setting is on "ESD". I made a
screenshot just in case I talk non-sense ;-)

Martin said that Breezy would be using Polyaudio when released, but that it was
still very buggy, so it was safer to install libesd0 instead.

Created an attachment (id=2928)
Multimedia Systems Selector

do you have any message if you run "gksudo gdmsetup" from a command line?

(In reply to comment #4)
> do you have any message if you run "gksudo gdmsetup" from a command line?

Huuu, well, I can't do any experiments right now... Breezy is too broken now. I
got X to start thanks to Daniel's fix yesterday, but I now have big problems
with the keyboard layout (most keys or key combinations don't behave as
expected, only lower case letters work properly), that the system is pretty much
unuseable, According to the error window I get when logging into Gnome, it has
to do with the X keyboard module. The mouse works fine though, so I can still
operate the update manager, hoping for an update that would fix the problem.
What worries me is that even when I start in 'recovery' mode, hence before X
starts, the keyboard layout does have little problems too. It is nowhere near as
bad as with X started, but for example I don't have accented characters, and I
can't even switch VT. Still, it's useable enough to type "apt-get dist-upgrade".

(In reply to comment #4)
> do you have any message if you run "gksudo gdmsetup" from a command line?

Okay sorry, even with a broken layout, I can still type 'sudo gdmsetup'. It did
not report any message whatsoever in the terminal, sadly.

Ijust noticed that I did 'sudo' since I was at the command line, not 'gksudo' as
you asked me, I hope hope/guess that it doesn't matter. If not, I will reboot
again into Breezy...

Latest Breezy update appears to have fixed this problem for me...

bug fixed, closing the bugzilla