Desktop sound events just don't play...

[MikeTheC]

I've noticed in both 8.04 and 8.10 that only a very few desktop sound events seem to work at all, and then I think except for the startup and shut down ones, I can only get them to "play" when I hit the preview play button in the list.

The rest won't even work at that point. Anybody else experiencing this?

I know it's not a problem with my sound card, since I can play movies and music with no problems at all.

[jimbog]

Yep, I have exactly the same problem (Kubuntu 8.10). The only notification sound I get is the logging out music but music, films, games etc are fine.

I started a thread about this last week but didn't really get anywhere. Sorry, I haven't been using linux for very long so I can't suggest a solution...

[XanTrax]

Please try

alsamixer -c 0

command and see if anything is muted or you do not have some parts of your speakers turned off/down

[MikeTheC]

Please try

alsamixer -c 0

command and see if anything is muted or you do not have some parts of your speakers turned off/down

Everything looks normal. The only muted things are sound inputs.

[XanTrax]

Everything looks normal. The only muted things are sound inputs.

This sounds like a similar to another users problem. Can you first please post the output of:

sudo lshw -C sound

and

sudo lspci | grep -i audio

If the above command comes up blank, please post the output of

sudo lspci