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thunderogg

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From: Rio de Janeiro

Registered: 2008-07-13

Posts: 172

Cannot play sound in GDM

I tried to play a sound when the GDM is ready for login, but it doesn't play anything, not when pressing the Play button or when logging in. Otherwise the sound works fine after having logged in. Do I have to add something more to the audio group? As it is now, there are ony the normal users in the audio group.

Erik Xian

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Registered: 2008-09-15

Posts: 18

Re: Cannot play sound in GDM

I've been trying to figure this one out myself as well. It turns out that gdm's default sound player is sox. If you don't have that installed, install it. I think there's a way to get it to use aplay, but I haven't gotten that to work just yet.

Edit: Got it.

First, open up /etc/gdm/custom.conf as root and add the following line under [daemon]:

SoundProgram=/path/to/soundprogram

Then run as root:

gdmflexiserver --command="UPDATE_CONFIG daemon/SoundProgram"

If it works, it should just say "OK" and when you start GDM again, you'll hopefully have sound.

Last edited by Erik Xian (2008-09-15 15:50:55)