I have a rather strange problem with Thunderbird 1.5.0.4-1.1 in KDE. I can not get the new mail sound to work. If I select a custom sound and then click on "preview sound", tbird freezes and then often will crash. About the same time this started, I started to get abook.mab corruption. The usual garbage at the end of the file. I can fix the abook by removing the garbage, but it does get bothersome since it happens about once a week. I don't believe much in coincidences, so I would suspect that the corruption occurs due to tbird trying to play a sound. Some background: I have three computers, all are upgrades from FC3. In two of them, the new mail sound works fine. I have all the latest updates, and all systems are configured as close to the same as possible, although there are slight differences due to their having different mixes of hardware. On the problem system, tbird has no problem playing the new mail sound in Gnome, it only happens in KDE. All other sound related programs work in KDE, mplayer plays movies, xmms plays mp3s, system sounds work. I can double click the wav file in Konqueror and it plays fine. What I have tried: I have esd enabled in Gnome, software mixer enabled in Gnome, KDE sound system enabled, KDE hardware set to auto-detect, player settings set to KDE sound system, kmix has all input types enabled. I have toggled all these setting on and off in different combinations, logged out, rebooted, and nothing helps. I have selected the system new mail sound and it does nothing as well. System: k7s5a cmedia sound card in a PCI slot 1.6GHz Duron Geforce 3 Ti200 512M DDR Two 80G drives CD-RW KDE and Gnome as well as many of the devel packages This is the last problem I'm experiencing with these systems. All in all, the upgrade was the best one so far. One of the other systems is an upgrade from FC1=>FC3=>FC5 and works great. I'm sure that this is just some configuration problem, I just have run out of ideas of where to look, and what to try. I've made numerous searches and have found a few others over the past year that have run into the same exact problem, but no one ever posted a solution. I hope someone can point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance, Lloyd __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
