Re: Playing a sound when GDM is "ready"

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque cox net>]

Ritesh Khadgaray wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 09:41 -0400, Jos�lburquerque wrote:
>   
> > Hi.  I have bit of a sound question with regards to gdm.  Recently I did
> > a fresh install of a GNU/Linux system (Debian) running GNOME 2.14.  All
> > went well except that I configured the Login Window (from my
> > "Desktop->Administration" menu) for 1) timed login and 2) play the
> > "generic.wav" sound file (in /usr/share/sounds) when the login screen is
> > ready.
> >
> > My system is running alsa and all sound applications (like xmms, totem,
> > etc.) work just fine.  In fact, my session runs esound (esd) and all my
> > gnome sounds play fine (ie. when I select a menu or press a button, etc.)
> >
> > GDM, however, does not play the sound file I selected.  Would anyone
> > have any idea why gdm would not play sound?  When gdm comes up (after a
> > logout or a boot up), it only makes the "computer sound" (from the
> > computer cpu) but no sound to the speakers.
> >
> > A simple explanation as to what gdm does to play a sound would help
> > greatly!  Thanks very much
> >     
> not to sure but do check out alsa volume setting from a virtual
> terminal, and try playing the sounds from within gdm.
>
>   
How do I "play sounds from within gdm"?  Do you mean from within my 
gnome session?  When I play within my session from a gnome-terminal I 
get an error:

jose sweety:~$ play /usr/share/sounds/generic.wav
sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Device or resource busy

But as I said, when I click on a menu item or press a button (on my 
desktop), I still get sound.  In my sound preferences I have esound 
enabled and system sounds.  Maybe esd is "blocking" the device?

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Sincerely
Jose Alburquerque