Re: [Evolution] No sound in Evolution

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

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
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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
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