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Hey all... Just got my Eee Black yesterday and spent all night tweaking it. However, I'm having one consistent issue that I can't figure out at all.
I'm getting no sound events in any way. I can play sounds using the Media Player app with no problem. However, when I try to assign a sound to any kind of event (Pidgin, KDE System Notifications, whatever) I get absolutely nothing. Even the "preview play" in the KDE Sytem Notification control center doesn't work. BTW.. I get the same behavior in both Easy and Full interface modes.
I have no idea what to tackle on this one. If anyone knows what I'm missing, please let me know. I know enough to be dangerous, but I'm definately a Linix newb, so try to explain any suggestions. 
Thanks!
--smthng
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Hi, the system sounds are just set to have no output. If you scroll down in the 'system notifications' section in control center, then click on 'player settings', you'll see it's set to 'no audio output'. Change to the top option and sounds start working.
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The sound system on the eeepc is not configured very well. Basically programs like Firefox hogs the sound system, so if you have that running and you try and play a movie in SMplayer you'll only get video and no audio.
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^^ I have not experienced that (I can try again)... but there is a known bug whereby certain applications (Wine seems to be a big troublemaker) somehow accidentally change the "PCM" channel (which most apps use to output audio) to be muted. And then the problem is that the default mixer does not let you unmute the channel.
There's a fix for that issue here:
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=2831
I'm not completely certain what apps cause this problem, although I know I've only had it once (and it seems to have been Wine in my case).
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Thanks barnesy, that did enable my KDE event sounds. Unfortunately, Pidgin (the one place I really need notifications) is still silent. A fix for that would be excellent if there is one.
mkrishan, I'd already checked the PCM levels and I haven't been bitten by that yet. I'll probably hold off on installing Wine or anything else hefty until I get Ubuntu on there. Hopefully, it won't be an issue under Ubuntu.
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Any way to do this in easy mode through the terminal? I also want sounds in Pidgin...
EDIT:
Found it in anotther thread.
Last edited by melm (2007-12-03 5:42:56 pm)
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How about pointing out the other thread to us?
I just managed to get it to work by changing the sound mode to "Command" and entering play %s as the command. It's ugly and I'd still like to know why none of the other methods work, but it does get the job done.
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yes why did that person not point us to the thread? i'm trying to figure this out too. the command setting didn't work for me.
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smthng wrote:
How about pointing out the other thread to us?
I just managed to get it to work by changing the sound mode to "Command" and entering play %s as the command. It's ugly and I'd still like to know why none of the other methods work, but it does get the job done.
THANK YOU! That command worked for me. I've been wondering how to get sound working under pidgin ever since I got my eee; which was early November....
Since this method didn't work for hanspecans, I'm wondering if there's another way of configuring this? If so, someone should post it in the wiki, that will be extremely helpful.
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Wikified... http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:enablesoundinpidgin
Not a great page, but it gets the job done. Anyone is welcome to clean it up or make it look better if needed. A master wiki editor, I am not.
Last edited by smthng (2007-12-12 10:16:25 am)
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