Ed Greshko wrote: >>> The sound on my Thinkpad T43 (model 1871-12G) sometimes works, >>> and sometimes does not work. >>> However, I'm not really asking about this, >>> but rather: Is there a simple way of testing if sound is working? >>> >>> I'm running Fedora-12/KDE, and looked at System Settings=> >>> Look and Feel=>Notifications , >>> but did not really understand how one is supposed to use this. >>> >>> Is there a simple command-line test for sound? > Go to .... Notifications as you have.... There is a pull down Event > Source menu....Select Konsole.... > > Go to "Bell in Non-Visible Session" to copy the name of the file > KDE-Sys-App-Message.ogg in the Play a Sound area. > > Then go to "Bell in Visible Session"....paste the name of the sound and > check the "Play a sound" box. Then Apply.... > > From now on...if you hit backspace or make some sort of error a beep > will be played. Thanks for the response. I tried this, but unfortunately did not get a peep out of it. I can play CDs with internal speaker or headphones, with Amarok or KsCD, but none of the Notifications seem to work. Is there any CLI command for making a noise from a .ogg file? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
