On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 10:32 +0000, Neil Bird wrote: > Essentially, the issue is that, with gdm audio enabled, any normal > user's app. will hang when trying to generate sound. This made my > login nearly impossible as I have a couple of applets that 'tone' when > logging in, and this seemed (via the gnome panel?) to near-enough hang > my entire session. I've rarely heard my computer do the login/ready noises, only ever during some graphical dual-logins when the second one of them would go through the switch user re-login seqence. Other than that, GDM always ran silent. To be honest, I prefer it that way, and I disable the login/window noises in Gnome. In the past, pre-pulseaudio era, I'd found them to wedge the sound system, so nothing could make any noises. At some stage something would try to make use of the sound system, fail, and never recover. And I dislike essentially useless noises. But, when trying out Ubuntu (with pulseaudio) on the same hardware, its GDM was quite capable of making its audio blingy noises, as well as the desktop once you're logged in, and the sound system would work fine. There must be some differences in how who's allowed to make sound is determined between the two systems. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
