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weeniewhite

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From: Saint-Nicolas, Quebec

Registered: 2007-01-04

Posts: 37

Gnome system sounds don't want to play

When I start gnome with the volume unmuted(because when I boot the sound is muted), I can hear the startup music. I can also listen to videos, mp3, etc. But all system sounds except the startup song won't play.

It worked one time a couple of hours ago but it was during some sort of big crash. I bugged gnome by changing theme and using a theme that... huh... does not exist. So I pressed CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE to log on in console and switched to icewm instead. Then I started gnome-theme-manager and suddenly! pouf! a window appeared telling me that I wasn't using the gnome keyboard configurations. I chose X keyboard and not gnome. I selected a decent theme and returned to gnome. That time, sound systems played well but died when I rebooted.

I would like to make the system sounds work without trying to bug everything each time I startup.

Mârcé bin.

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[weeniewhite@myhost ~]$ sudo make bagel
make: *** No rule to make target `bagel'.  Stop.

Cows

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From: Brooklyn, NY

Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 101

Re: Gnome system sounds don't want to play

I think I also have the same problem. I don't have this problem with root but I made a account for myself:

adduser -m -s /bin/bash cows
passwd cows

Then after I started it said that I don't have permissions to listen to sounds and that it would continue using null output..

weeniewhite

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From: Saint-Nicolas, Quebec

Registered: 2007-01-04

Posts: 37

Re: Gnome system sounds don't want to play

Hmm.. That's strange. I guess there's a way to give the permissions to all users... But I'm not sure if it's my problem.

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[weeniewhite@myhost ~]$ sudo make bagel
make: *** No rule to make target `bagel'.  Stop.

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: Gnome system sounds don't want to play

There's an 'audio' group.

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Crooksey

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From: UK ~

Registered: 2006-08-14

Posts: 415

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Re: Gnome system sounds don't want to play

If other sounds play he is all ready in the audio group :-o

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weeniewhite

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From: Saint-Nicolas, Quebec

Registered: 2007-01-04

Posts: 37

Re: Gnome system sounds don't want to play

Up

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[weeniewhite@myhost ~]$ sudo make bagel
make: *** No rule to make target `bagel'.  Stop.

mrunion

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From: Jonesborough, TN

Registered: 2007-01-26

Posts: 1,938

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Re: Gnome system sounds don't want to play

Refer to this bug report and some posts around here.  Basically, you'll probably not have system sounds...

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6544

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Matt

"It is very difficult to educate the educated."