it is very likely that the KDE sound daemon is blocking the GNOME sound daemon from playing sounds and so Evolution cannot play sounds.
Jeff On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 11:57 -0700, Asa Jay Laughton wrote: > I'm running Evolution 1.4 under KDE 3.1 under SuSE Linux 8.2. > > Sounds on the KDE desktop appear to work okay. I get a sound on > logging in to the desktop and also with popup dialog boxes. > > I have Evolution configured to play a sound when email arrives, > however, it does not play the sound when email arrives. > > The sound is a .wav file. > > When using the Ximian desktop, the sound plays as expected, but not > under the KDE desktop. > > I'm kind of clueless as to what the difference is between it playing > under Ximian and not under KDE. > > Does it have something to do with sound drivers? And how do I find > out? > > Asa Jay > > Asa Jay Laughton > Senior Engineering Support Technician > (509)891-3306 Tel > (509)891-3355 Fax > -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
