Deafening Silence, salsa with alsa.

After so long I decided to install and enable alsa support on my debiana. And for non-gnu people, Debiana, is actually a Debian distro--(I give all my pc a name, since I'm a lonely person and giving them women names is an excuse for my reclusive lifestyle)

After uninstalling aumix, and installing alsa-utils and most of alsa stuff, i still had no sound on my debiana. I then realise that I had to run alsamixer to crank up the volume a little. After that things was working fine for my xmms and mplayer. Of course I had to change their configuration to use alsa now.

However, I noticed some applications still had problems. I then found out that applications like firefox and gaim are oss applications. Hence, I had to install something call alsa-oss, an alsa wrapper for oss applications.
How easy that was, with just a quick apt-get install, and i tried running my gaim again. Still, I get no sound. I then realise that since I'm using enlightenment, maybe i need to use esd. Quickly I installed esd (enlightenment sound daemon), run gaim, went to preferences and force it to use esd. And wala, debiana can talk again. Sexy, I also tried running some flash animation sites on firefox, to test for sound. Beautiful, things is just working again, in fact better. Now I can salsa with my alsa.:)