guppetto Posted October 29, 2007 Report Share Posted October 29, 2007 Since installing 2008, while I have sound from my Thnkpad T60, Pidgin IM is totally mute and i'm not sure why. In KDE Amarok works fine playing sounds and I can preview sounds in Konqueror, but Pidgins notification sounds won't play. I've tried to enter the command "play %s" as an option under the preferences but that doesn't work either. ls -l /dev/dsp yeilds the following: crw-rw---- 1 cdc audio 14, 3 2007-10-28 14:39 /dev/dsp Any ideas why Pidgin refuses to play any of it's notification sounds? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 29, 2007 Report Share Posted October 29, 2007 Might sound like a stupid question but have you enabled sounds under "options" in Pidgin and have you made sure that the "muted" box is not checked in the taskbar? Pidgin works fine on my boxes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 29, 2007 Report Share Posted October 29, 2007 I found on one of my systems that I had to turn the sound up a lot to hear sound from pidgin. No idea why. Although if I'm in a quiet room, I can hear it fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest EireHack Posted July 7, 2008 Report Share Posted July 7, 2008 I had the same problem with Pidgin on Ubuntu 7.10. This should do the trick: 1 In Pidgin, select Preferences from the Tools menu (or press Ctrl+P) 2 Click on the Sounds tab 3 In the Method drop down list, select Command 4 In the Sound command text box, enter the following: aplay %s 5 Select an event with an assigned sound from the Sound Events list 6 Click the Test button. You should now hear the notification sound 7 Click the Close button Hope this helps! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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