camorri Posted December 28, 2009 Report Share Posted December 28, 2009 (edited) Thunderbird is version 2.0.0.23 on Mandriva 2010 - free 64 bit version. New install, this is not an upgrade. I have gone to Edit --> Preferences --> General tab, and checked Play a sound. I selected a sound file that played in older versions of TB. For the record, file mail2new.wavmail2new.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, mono 22050 Hz I am not using Pulse Audio, it is deactivated. The file plays if I use 'play mail2new.wav' at the command line. I know TB is fussy about file encoding. Does anyone know what encoding I have to have to make the file work? I did find some references to converting the file with 'sox' but I can not get sox to work. I just dumps out help. I also had a look into Audacity, it will save files in different formats, but which one will work? Edited December 28, 2009 by camorri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 I think that if you will need some sort of sound server running. If under gnome, activate and run ESD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camorri Posted December 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 some sort of sound server running Hmmm, I was afraid that might be the case. I don't have Pulse Audio running, because for reasons I can not explain, it kills the three laptops in the house that connect through the wireless connection. That might sound bizarre, to me too at first. With PA running, I have a XP system, a Vista system, and a PCLinuxOS system, constantly drop out, and loose their wireless connection with PA running on my system. That was failing on 2009.1 Live and now on 2010 Free 64bit. I have not tried to figure out why, I just deactivated PA in MCC, and the wireless systems work without issue. My box is hard wired. I have XFCE and KDE both installed, not Gnome. Is there any other sound server solution I can try besides PA? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted December 30, 2009 Report Share Posted December 30, 2009 XFE4 also uses esd for system sound events. Install esd, and then via mcc/services activate esd to run at system startup, if it's not activated right after installation. I know... esd isn't the perfect sound server by far, but this is what XFCE4 and Gnome are using. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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