Re: Failed to play sound: Sound disabled ???

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:53:34 +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote:

> I want to play sound  at login;
> I installed canberra, it seems correct, until I tryed to test it with
> the command
> canberra-gtk-play -f /usr/share/sounds/desktop-login.ogg but it failed
> with error
> 
> 
> Failed to play sound: Sound disabled  ???
> 
> very strange ; since I can here  audio file ??  the same file I can here
> it with another audio player.

Maybe is that you have to enable system sounds. 

Go to Gnome/system/preferences/sound themes tab and select "sound theme: 
default". Then, try to play that Canberra sound again :-)

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón