On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 10:10 +0100, Matías Costa wrote: > El Lunes 14 Febrero 2005 09:14, Andrew Ingram escribió: > > Hi List. > > Hi Andrew > > > Ever since KDE 3.3 my system notifications haven't been working (ie the > > sounds when KDE starts up, and certain error sounds I had defined). It > > was definitely working under KDE 3.1, but it might have gone at the 3.2 > > upgrade, I'm not really sure when. > > > > When I go to the Control Center-> Sound System and "Test Sound", I hear > > the jingle just fine. However, going to the system notifications, and > > clicking on the little "play" button next to a notification, I hear > > nothing. I'm assuming that somewhere along the way, a new Debian package > > became used to play these and I dont have it for some reason (this is > > happening on 3 Debian/Sid/KDE boxes of mine). > > I remember someone had this problem not much time ago. Hey! it's still in my > mailbox > > Tim Folger wrote: > "For anyone who might be interested I managed to fix my sound problems. > After reading Adeodato Simo's message a few days ago about the > libflac6 issue being solved, I upgraded my system. After the upgrade > root had system sounds working again but normal users did not. I > finally managed to get system sounds back for normal users by opening > ~/.kde/share/config and deleting two files: knotify.eventsrc and > knotifyrc. When I restarted kde these two files were regenerated and > all system notification sounds were restored." > > Next time remember to search the archives.
Thank you very much Matias (and Tim), you were right, that was the problem. I had actually searched the archives but I must have missed the particular reply. Thank you once again. Regards, Andrew
