Robert Harris <robert.f.harris@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Steve Turner wrote:
>> First of I've got to say this. I just discovered Debian 4 and man am
>> I impressed! It took half a day to do it because the server in
>> calgary was slow, but I installed Debian 4 on a LOWLY 333MHz 386 with
>> 128MBs of RAM on a 5.2GIG HDD and it didn't only install, it actually
>> goes like stink. Heaps better than the Windoze 1898 SE that it came
>> installed with.
>>
>> Now to my question.
>>
>> How do I enable system sounds in Debian 4? I know my speakers work.
>> I've paid music. But I just can't see in the repositories where wave
>> files or system sounds might be hiding. Thanks.
>
> My system sounds are in gnome-audio but presumably you are not running
> gnome. What desktop system, if any, are you running and, if you are not
> running a GUI, when do you expect system sounds to be played?

He might well be running GNOME because the gnome-audio package is not
installed by default. After installing it you need to configure GNOME to
use sounds.

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Stephen Chadfield