Help! Pidgin Has No Sound

[guppetto]

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?

[arctic]

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.

[ianw1974]

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.

[Guest EireHack]

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