Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 11:46:08 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Stephen Hilton <nospam@hiltonbsd.com> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Sounf and GNOME [was Re: ports/58840: [PATCH] exclude possibly unrequireddependenciesfrom x11/gnome2] Message-ID: <1067877967.749.1.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <20031103072607.4a75bb86.nospam@hiltonbsd.com> References: <200311021927.hA2JRIt2074978@freefall.freebsd.org> <1067833233.258.10.camel@localhost> <20031103045730.GV96543@toxic.magnesium.net> <1067843548.3865.17.camel@localhost> <20031103072607.4a75bb86.nospam@hiltonbsd.com>
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On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 08:26, Stephen Hilton wrote:
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> I admin a Gnome2 system that has no sound card and always has an error=20
> on Gnome2 desktop startup regarding no sound device.
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> In an previous exchange I read this:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 09:36, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> > Is there any way to install Gnome (or at least the parts of it that
> > are necessary to run Gnome applications, without necessarily using it
> > as a desktop) without the horrible abomination that is esound? Case
> > in point: print/ggv2; I simply cannot understand why it requires
> > esound.
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> Esound is a pretty low-level dependency in GNOME, thus all apps that
> depend on libgnome, depend on esound. This does not mean you have to
> _use_ esound, though. You don't have to run the esound daemon. In
> fact, you could add WITHOUT_GNOME=3Desound to /etc/make.conf, which will
> prevent esound-optional apps from depending on it.
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> Joe
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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> These are the 2 lines in the Gnome2 Makefile that reference audio:
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> gnome-cd:${PORTSDIR}/audio/gnomemedia2 \
> ${X11BASE}/share/gnome/sounds/question.wav:${PORTSDIR}/audio/gnomeaudio2 =
\
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> What is the correct way to handle this problem ?
Those ports are not the cause of this problem. ESounD is imported via
x11/libgnome. You could solve this problem by creating a symlink of
/dev/dsp (or whatever device is listed in the error dialog)pointing to
/dev/null.
Joe
> (besides adding a sound card ;-)
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> Regards,
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> Stephen Hilton
> nospam@hiltonbsd
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