Ritesh Khadgaray wrote: > On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 09:41 -0400, José Alburquerque wrote: > >> Hi. I have bit of a sound question with regards to gdm. Recently I did >> a fresh install of a GNU/Linux system (Debian) running GNOME 2.14. All >> went well except that I configured the Login Window (from my >> "Desktop->Administration" menu) for 1) timed login and 2) play the >> "generic.wav" sound file (in /usr/share/sounds) when the login screen is >> ready. >> >> My system is running alsa and all sound applications (like xmms, totem, >> etc.) work just fine. In fact, my session runs esound (esd) and all my >> gnome sounds play fine (ie. when I select a menu or press a button, etc.) >> >> GDM, however, does not play the sound file I selected. Would anyone >> have any idea why gdm would not play sound? When gdm comes up (after a >> logout or a boot up), it only makes the "computer sound" (from the >> computer cpu) but no sound to the speakers. >> >> A simple explanation as to what gdm does to play a sound would help >> greatly! Thanks very much >> > not to sure but do check out alsa volume setting from a virtual > terminal, and try playing the sounds from within gdm. > > How do I "play sounds from within gdm"? Do you mean from within my gnome session? When I play within my session from a gnome-terminal I get an error:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ play /usr/share/sounds/generic.wav sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Device or resource busy But as I said, when I click on a menu item or press a button (on my desktop), I still get sound. In my sound preferences I have esound enabled and system sounds. Maybe esd is "blocking" the device? -- Sincerely Jose Alburquerque _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
