On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 17:17 -0500, Jose Martinez wrote: > I am a relatively new Debian user. I had my system set up properly and > everything seemed to be working well. I used the Pithos front-end for > the pandora service (which I like fairly well, by the way) which caused > all of my audio notifications from the gnome system to stop. I no > longer get the sounds from the various parts of the system notifying me > of changes, i.e. icedove pops up a visual notification that I have > recieved new e-mail, but the sound that had been associated with that no > longer happens. This is not isolated to icedove. The system used to > make a sound when I changed the volume level using my mouse wheel which > no longer occurs either. > > The audio on the system does work. I can play MP3 files through > Rhythmbox or other audio player. I can play movies with audio, etc. So > the audio sub-system of the computer is functional. It is just the > alerts that do not work. I went to the system settings and made sure > that alerts were turned on and the volume for them was turned up. They > were and it was. I adjusted both anyway, and this made no difference. > Basically none of the sounds coming from the operating system are > functional. > > What should I look at/check to solve this problem. Again, I have been > able to isolate the problem as having started when I used the Pithos > package. I am using an older laptop system, an HP Pavilion dv9000 > system, if that makes any difference. > > Anyone with any information/help will be greatly appreciated.
A couple of things to check: gnome-session-canberra is installed? Double check that /org/gnome/desktop/sound/event-sounds is checked (dconf-editor) Does canberra-gtk-play --id="dialog-error" play a sound or give any output? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5
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