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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.

Feverishly pounding upon a keyboard Steve Turner typed:
> 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.
>
>

Under Preferences > Sound > check the boxes for Enable & Play. Plus, you
can point those events to a directory you have with sound files.

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sk8r-365
But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.
-- Matthew 19:30

Feverishly pounding upon a keyboard Steve Turner typed:
<snip> 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.

Oh, and you can add more with the gnome-audio package. They are stored
in /usr/share/sounds/gtk-events and more in /usr/share/sounds/* (if root
adds other non-supplied events there all users will have access to them
as well). The file format is, by default, WAV but others *may* work ...
I haven't tried differing files.

--
sk8r-365
But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.
-- Matthew 19:30

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?

Robert

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.

--
Stephen Chadfield

Es solve-d now. Tanks.

"Stephen Chadfield" <stephen@chadfield.com> wrote in message
news:48282272$0$562$c5fe31e7@reader.usenet4all.se. ..
> 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.
>
> --
> Stephen Chadfield

Steve Turner <stevezygote@noway.com> wrote:
> Es solve-d now. Tanks.

Good. Have the reached the point yet where the sounds have become so
annoying that you want help to make them go away ;-)

--
Stephen Chadfield